Scott Meyers (the author of this presentation) makes a pretty good case in the following presentation: http://vimeo.com/97318797 http://vimeo.com/97318797 Unfo

Scott Meyers (the author of this presentation) makes a pretty good case in the following presentation: http://vimeo.com/97318797 http://vimeo.com/97318797 Unfortunately the slides are not online. But his presentation starts with a case of why 'auto' should often be preferred to explicit type declarations.