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Comment by fenesiistvan | Hacker News Reader

So auto allows you to deal more easily with c++ crap, especially STL. My first thing to do in all my c++ project is to import my in-house STL wrapper, which makes STL usable for me. I never understood how people can work with raw STL. I don't like at all working with templates and i am using it only in internal class implementations. C++ without templates is so much more beautiful.

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Would you mind giving some examples? I don't find STL to be crap at all.

std::unordered_map<std::string, SomeClassName>::iterator it = hashmap.begin();

auto it = hashmap.begin();

I find auto useful for cutting down some of the verbosity of templates STL containers, but I can see how over use can lead to code requiring much more referencing if maintaining code that rarely defines types.

Oh no, I agree with that. I was specifically talking about fenesiistvan's point about his STL wrapper. I was wondering what his use cases were.

No doubt auto is extremely useful in a case like the one you mentioned. In fact, even more so in here:

for (std::unordered_map<std::string, std::unordered_map<std::string, long>*>::const_iterator it = a.begin(); ...)

I am used with the old Delphi / C++ Builder style. I think that it is much more clear than than bot the STL and the new trendy C11 style.