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by kazinator 3034 days ago
> I don't see any argument for it in a C-like language.

The inventor of the C-like languages B and NB (which then inspired C) agreed and used the more intuitive auto.

  {
    auto x = 1; /* x is implicitly an integer */
  }
Now it's back in vogue in the C-like language C++. It doesn't mean "automatic storage", though.