Quite apart from not being possible forbidding non-auto declarations also sounds like a terrible idea. I am not really that fond of the auto keyword. In some ca

Quite apart from not being possible forbidding non-auto declarations also sounds like a terrible idea. I am not really that fond of the auto keyword. In some cases it is necessary and/or helpful but it is also very helpful to be able to tell what the type of a variable is at a glance. I think the auto keyword should be used sparingly.