Re:Least Known C++ Keywords
by lelele on Sunday January 09, 2011 @09:01AM
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If you don't use any of these keyword, then please do not present yourself as a C++ programmer at all. Some are quite infrequent - I've never used "auto", "register" - but I can't think about any serious C++ OOP code lacking "explicit".
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The auto keyword has been repurposed to do some basic type inferencing. It helps save a lot of typing (both senses of the word apply here). This is in c++0x and most compilers already implement this usage of auto.