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

[Era Scarecrow]

On Tuesday, 1 January 2013 at 08:49:29 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 19:09:35 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, December 24, 2012 20:03:24 monarch_dodra wrote:
>>> Snap. You got me.
>>
>> It wouldn't matter if the function accepted its argument by 
>> value. You'd still be returning a reference to a variable that 
>> doesn't exist anymore.
>
> So what if it does exist? Say the temporary lives as long as 
> the current scope lives?

  Make that the scope of the variable it's being assigned to...