Comment by detaro

7 years ago

Which specific example is choosen doesn't seem all that relevant for the point of "there's these two similar but not identical things people have to/might not understand the difference of"

Picking an example that never occurs is not relevant, because nobody needs to learn the thing that never comes up in practice.

  • But as you show with your other example, the difference between auto and decltype does come up in practice, even if the example is not a typical one.