Re: Coding style for C++ constructs going forward

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 7:49 PM Liu Hao via Gdb <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 在 2020/8/11 下午9:55, Nathan Sidwell 写道:
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> > I agree, it's the way I use auto.  I particularly like the
> >    auto *foo = expr;
> > idiom, when you're getting a pointer, but the type of the pointee is clear.  It informs how you use 'foo'.
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> Personally I dislike this syntax. Pointers are objects, and `auto foo = expr;` should suffice. What if the type of `expr` is
> `unique_ptr<T>` or `optional<T>`? The ptr-operator just can't exist there. So why the differentiation?
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> `auto& foo = ...` and `const auto& foo = ...` are necessary to indicate that the entity being declared is a reference (and
> is not an object), while `auto*` doesn't make much sense, as I discourage plain pointers in my projects.

Then use of `auto*` would make it easier for you to spot use of plain
pointers in your projects & scrutinize them further?

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> Best regards,
> LH_Mouse
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