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by ninkendo 3702 days ago
You've said this same thing 3 or 4 other times in this thread.

Yes, yes, the formal definition of type inference as supported by languages like Haskell is not fully supported by C++, or Go, or C#, etc. But that's not the definition of it that anyone else in the comments here seem to be using, so can we drop it?

You seem to be knowledgeable about type theory. Is there a formalized term for the subset of type inference that C++11 supports? If so, can you just assume that others are using that term? Not that the discussion isn't interesting, but you're coming off as needlessly contrarian.

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Type propagation.