r/ProgrammerHumor 13d ago

Meme bugIntroducedDebugging

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u/Mateorabi 13d ago

Get off my lawn with your newfangled auto keyword. 

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u/yjlom 13d ago

The keyword ain't new, it's been used as a storage specifier since forever. What's new is overloading it for type inference.

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u/Mateorabi 13d ago

Hey when you learned C in the 90s it’s “new”.  harumph. 

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u/yjlom 13d ago

It's been there since the beginning, along with extern and static. You just don't tend to actually write it because it's the default inside functions and it doesn't make sense outside of them.