Comment by carom

I am so shocked at how many people use `auto` in C++. I can not think of a worse thing to do to your code in terms of readability and future maintainability. Maybe it is OK if you use an IDE to identify types for you but I still hate it. I am trying to learn a new library right now with light documentation which means reading the code, and between typedefs, auto, and technical debt, it is a tedious exercise to figure out something's type, to go look up its function, to see what type that is returning.