structs are now lvalues - what is with "auto ref"?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/24/12 12:11 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, December 24, 2012 17:55:23 Minas Mina wrote:
>> On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 23:59:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> wrote:
>>> On Monday, December 24, 2012 00:48:01 Namespace wrote:
>>> but Andrei is dead set against
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> Why?
>
> He's convinced that it's caused problems for C++ and was a major mistake. You
> can search the newsgroup for discussions on it. The most recent one which
> involved Andrei was in the beta group:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/4F84D6DD.5090405@digitalmars.com
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

An important smoking gun is C++'s min(), which is allows writing unsafe 
code without casts.

const int& haveANiceDay = min(4, 5);


Andrei