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Another place where auto can be useful is to handle cases where the function signature changes without making changes at the calling site. An explicitly typed var would need changing or worse, can work with some potential hidden bugs due to implicit type conversion.

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This is one of the things static typing is supposed to prevent in the first place. It seems like a lot of people actually want a dynamically typed language, but try to change a static language instead.