On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 12:58, Dusan Jovanovic via Std-Proposals
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> Hi,
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> We would like to create a proposal for extending the scope of auto keyword and to allow for its usage for declaring class members when using default member initialization.
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> struct Foo {
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> auto bar = makeBar();
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> };
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> In our codebase we encountered a need for this macro:
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> #define AUTO_MEMBER(NAME, ...) decltype(__VA_ARGS__) NAME = __VA_ARGS__;
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> To be used as such:
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> struct Foo {
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> AUTO_MEMBER(bar, makeBar())
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> };
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> But this has its limitations and a language support for this use case would be nice.
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> Is there a reason why this was not done so far? Would this be something worth pursuing?

Here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3897.html