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A comment on Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax. Parent comment

Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by metadat on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:14PM (#32881144)
Why does it need both the keywords "auto" and "int" when declaring main()? Just seems extra confusing..
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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by mgraczyk on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:29PM (#32881276)
This is cruft. Without auto it wouldn't be parsed as a function declaration
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