Re: gtkmm and C++0x

[michi7x7 <mailing-lists michi7x7 de>]

> I had a discussion about this with Daniel once. One of the good uses
> of auto would be avoid redundancy.
> eg., Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::IconTheme>  icon_theme = Gk::IconTheme::get_default();
> Here the return type is quite obvious and using auto makes sense to
> make the code more readable by avoiding really long statements.
>
> Cheers,
> Debarshi
>    
But your IDE can't definitely know the type of this variable.
Even worse: if the gtkmm-Team decides to return Gtk::IconTheme* instead, 
your "auto"-Type would be Gtk::IconTheme. Glib::RefPtr could have a 
constructor, which takes a Glib::Object, so "normal" code would work, 
but code using "auto" not.