alt Hacker NewsSaving this to use as an argument when C++ comes up in a discussion. This toxic swamp cannot be fixed and anyone chosing to jump into it needs a warning.
Saving this to use as an argument when C++ comes up in a discussion. This toxic swamp cannot be fixed and anyone chosing to jump into it needs a warning.
Most of the relevance of this is limited to C++ library authors doing metaprogramming.
Most of the "ugly" of these examples only really matters for library authors and even then most of the time you'd be hard pressed to put yourself in these situations. Otherwise it "just works".
Basically any adherence to a modicum of best practices avoids the bulk of the warts that come with type deduction or at worst reduces them to a compile error.