Using little types is fine, but I prefer to not use them nor do I recommend them. I have dealt with several large C&#x2F;C++ codebases which used them extensively. It often took too much time to find the declaration to see the real type. Then I would forget and repeat the process again and again and again. Overall they wasted more time than they saved.<p>Some of the fancy IDEs help with this problem, but not everyone likes using them so you can&#x27;t count on that as a solution.