auto

• auto is used to infer the type of the variable that is being declared and initialized

• In ‘old’ C++:

  

• In C++ 11:

    

• Anyway,there are restrictions on its usage:

• You cannot use auto as a type of an argument of a function or method.

• Your method return type cannot be auto

• You cannot use auto to declare and initialize variables of several types in the same line, like this:  

  autox = 2, b = true, c = "hello"; //invalid auto usage