Are you sure you're making a point – because I can't see one. Seems more about unnecessary bitching about C++ being different from [some-different-language]. I

Are you sure you're making a point – because I can't see one. Seems more about unnecessary bitching about C++ being different from [some-different-language]. If they could do anything more stupid as introducing a galling difference and a special case to variable initialisation with auto, it would be to do exactly that, but because “some other languages work more like that”.