Automatic Type Deduction with the auto Keyword

Since the introduction of the auto keyword in C++11, there has been a lot of confusion in the C++ community about how to use the different flavors of auto, such as const auto&, auto&, auto&&, and decltype(auto).

Using auto in function signatures

Although discouraged by some C++ programmers, in our experience the use of auto in function signatures can increase readability when browsing and viewing header files.

Here is how the auto the syntax looks compared to the traditional syntax with explicit types: