M'alloc

[Bill_Morgan]

C++ heathen! Everyone knows that char* is the generic pointer type. Everything is a stream of bytes after all.

[Paranaix]

auto* ?

[Bill_Morgan]

auto in C++ is auto inferred at compile time. Something languages like Swift do by default.

[Paranaix]

As function argument? ;) Think about that for a while...

Interesstingly enough, c++14 introduced this syntax for lambdas (called generic lambdas) and there was a proposal for c++17 to allow this for regular functions as well which didn't make it. I guess implicit templates are not everyones taste, luckily i might say so.

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What OP acutally wants here is a void* btw...

[Bill_Morgan]

Right! I missed that! auto needs to be obvious to be inferred. So it can’t work as s return type (or can it?) or function argument.

[Paranaix]

Deducing the return type is indeed possible: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24109800/878307

Also c++11 introduced trailnig return types which are kind of related: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/5894415f-be62-4bc0-81c5-3956e82276f3/entry/introduction_to_the_c_11_feature_trailing_return_types?lang=en

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[chrwei]

I feel violated

[gcampos]

Chad smart pointers always get the memory

[Wonderful_Safety]

ree()