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because the code base has several million lines and eclipse is a horrific user experience?

The example posted is a horrible use of autocomplete.

>const int calculated = [&] { auto l = lock(); auto first = stage1(); auto second = stage2(); return combine(first, second); }()

No idea what that does. It takes 2 variables of some type and does something too them. There is some sort of lock there too. I guess.

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The problem there is not with auto, it's with the function naming. If you don't know what the function lock does, how would writing Lock l = lock() help? Also, stage1 and stage2 are awful function names in this context.

> stage1 and stage2 are awful function names in this context

Clearly that was an example created to demonstrate the lambda idiom, it wasnt real code

Does

  return combine( stage1(), stage2() )

bother you too? because that infers the return-types of stage1() and stage2() as well.

yes, for different reasons.

So is the core problem that there's no decent IDE for C++ which can identify the "autocompleted" types to the developer?

No, the core problem is a developer that thought "auto" exists to make code easier to write instead of existing to make code easier to read.

I use sublime text and it works fine, combined with a robust code search tool.

The problem here is poorly written code. I shouldn't need an IDE to tell me what is going on, the code should do it.

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