[Qgis-psc] QEP 314: Relax prohibition against "auto"

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 at 09:25, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Please see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/319
> for a proposed change to the QGIS coding policies to relax the current
> prohibition against use of "auto" in some new cases.
>
> Specifically, allowing use of "auto" for variable types when the
> variable type is explicitly stated during its initialization:
>
> auto may be used for variable types if the type is explicit during
> variable initialization. Eg
>
> // allowed, as the QgsPoint type is explicit during initialization:
> auto pointObject = QgsPoint( 3, 4 );
> // allowed, as the std::unique_ptr< QgsPoint >, std::shared_ptr<
> QgsPoint > types are explicit during initialization:
> auto pointUniquePointer = std::make_unique< QgsPoint >( 3, 4 );
> auto pointSharedPointer = std::make_shared< QgsPoint >( 3, 4 );
>
> // NOT allowed, the argument types for the std::tuple are not explicit:
> auto myTuple = std::make_tuple( 0, 5 );
>
> Please keep discussion on
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/319 so that we
> have a formal record of the discussion.

This proposal has passed the 2 week discussion phase and is ready for
voting now.

Nyall