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Compiler Error C3552

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'typename': a late specified return type cannot contain 'auto'

If you use the auto keyword as a placeholder for the return type of a function, you must provide a late-specified return type. However, you cannot use another auto keyword to specify the late-specified return type. For example, the following code fragment yields error C3552.

auto myFunction->auto; // C3552