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		wmu on March 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference I totally agree, type inference speed writing a code, nothing more. For easy cases reading such code is OK (var path = "/usr/bin/whatever" - obvious), but with a more complex code it becomes awful. I'm a C++ programmer, and quite often I have to dig through dozens of headers to find out what this magic "auto" really means.

icebraining on March 11, 2016 [–]

That's because C++ combines type inference with a gnarly compilation process. In a language like Java, editors will support it and you'll just be able to "mouse over" (or press a key combo in Vim/Emacs) and it'll tell you the inferred type.

wmu on March 11, 2016 | | [–]

A good point, I didn't consider IDE support.

lfowles on March 11, 2016 | | [–]

Good C++ IDEs do the same.

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