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by rovingeye 139 days ago
This has been valid C++ since C++ 11
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It's unusual. Some, unusual, style guides require it. It's useful in some cases, even necessary in some which is why it was introduced, but not for simple "int"
it's literally the exact same thing. We use trailing return types to be consistent across the language.
We use trigraphs to be consistent across the language.