June 20, 2007
Hoenir Wrote:

> I still can't get the purpose of "auto".
> I know it makes it possible to e.g. write "auto y = 4u;" but why not
> just "uint y = 4;"?

"auto" is very usefull for cases like:

auto x = new MyNewClass!(Foo, Bar)();
or
auto y = getSomething();
doSmomething(y);