Hi,

inspired by the thread relating to the 'auto' keyword some weeks ago I
remember another (totally different) idea for using 'auto'.

Often you need the compiler-generated assignmet-operator and copy-ctors.
If you have a large object with a lot of members, re-writing these
functions is tedious and error-prone. OTOH, if the compiler do the work,
it often generates these functions inline. This leads to large object
files and a lot of redundant code in the executable. (I don't know of a
compiler, which doesn't inline compiler-generated assignment-operators
and copy-ctors). So my suggestion is:

If you have a class A, then

A::A (const A& ) auto;
A& A::operator= (const A& ) auto;

acts like a definition of these functions but the body is
compiler-generated.


Best regards
Olaf Krzikalla

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