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[Lionello Lunesu]

"Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> "Charles" <noone at nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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>>I think its short for 'auto' deduction ?
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>> 'var' gets my vote
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> 'auto' goes way back to C and means "allocate on the stack". This also 
> implicitly means "destruct at end of scope." In order for type inference 
> to work, there has to be a keyword in front of the declaration to let the 
> parser know it's a declaration rather than an assignment. Thus, 'auto' now 
> means "allocate on the stack" and if the type is missing it also means 
> "infer the type." Types can be inferred with other storage classes:
>
>    static x = 3;        // x is int
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> This follows the 'auto' proposal for C++ as far as I know.

Do you mean the two seemingly different "auto"s are not ambigious?

> 'var' would be a digression into pascalishness (ugh <g>).

I'm just glad you didn't use this argument against array slicing ; )

L.