> correctness, performance, maintainability, and robustness What? I want whatever he is smoking. > correctness C++ allows for casting to/from different types

> correctness, performance, maintainability, and robustness What? I want whatever he is smoking. > correctness C++ allows for casting to/from different types (the core behind polymorphism) - but if you cast to the wrong type then that's your own fault. If you want a warm fuzzy feeling of not worrying about bad casts - use Python/Go/FreeBASIC/some other language. > performance That is complete and utter delusion. Your program won't run any faster or optimize better because you used the auto keyword [1]. If anything - it will take even longer (ms longer) to compile. > maintainability I have an odd feeling about that. Yeah you can change the return type of a method or function and you don't have to worry about changing the code calling those methods/functions. But if you are changing to a vastly different type - you are going to have to change the calling code anyways. > robustness I don't want the compiler to fix my mistakes. I want the compiler to tell me how stupid I am and force me to fix them. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19618759/c-11-auto-compile-time-or-runtime http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19618759/c-11-auto-compil...