> comic book readers

You say that like reading comic books is an anti-intellectual crime.

Getting to the point, look at these examples and tell me which one is better from the readability perspective.

> for(std::vector<std::shared_ptr<MyClass> >::const_iterator it = v.begin(); it != v.end(); ++it)

or

> for(const auto &value : v)

Even in the case when the "value" variable's inferred type isn't apparent from the context, we can use

> for(const std::shared_ptr<MyClass> &value : v)

which is still much more readable than the monstrosity in the first example.