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		hmry on Aug 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The human typewriter, or why optimizing for typing... C++ had that too, in 1998. C++11 and C23 changed the meaning of auto to mean "infer this type".

Y_Y on Aug 6, 2024 [–]

That's helpful, but not entirely true. The old meaning remains in C23 for explicitly specified types, and the `auto` of C23 and C++11 have some notable differences: https://dev.to/pauljlucas/auto-in-c23-ij9

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