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longlivedeath on Nov 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python

> it is considered good practice to add types as documentation to top-level constructs

But with type inference your tools can do that for you (e.g. C-u C-c C-t in haskell-mode).

lmm on Nov 1, 2012 [–]

A good IDE can fill in the types in C++ too.

longlivedeath on Nov 2, 2012 | [–]

Is there a C++ IDE that can figure out the function signature after you have written something like

_ f(_ a, _ b, _ c) { YOUR; CODE; HERE; }

?

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