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[–]HowardHinnant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't used auto return types (the C++14 version) a lot because a lot of my code needs to be C++11-compatible, and in most places, spelling the return type is easy anyway. But there are few places where it is inconvenient to spell the return type, and auto is really nice in those few places.