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by dllthomas 4666 days ago
Interestingly, this (narrow) case is supported by C++ (auto) now.

Even C, kind of:

#define AUTO_TYPE(X,Y) __typeof(Y) X = Y

... though I'm not sure I'd recommend it.

Type inference in full generality can give you a bunch more, as I just went into over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6327327