Its 5 extra characters actually.. because any sensible C++ project has i32 etc defined. The type omission version isn't very useful, as this type of code is di

Its 5 extra characters actually.. because any sensible C++ project has i32 etc defined. The type omission version isn't very useful, as this type of code is difficult to read later. Generally end up regretting using auto, and end up converting it to the actual type, except with iterators or nasty templates.