auto storage class - infer or RAII?

Tydr Schnubbis fake at address.dude
Sat Nov 11 20:04:28 PST 2006


Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
>> Considering that scope already exists as a keyword, I find this an excellent
>> suggestion that is also very much clearer in meaning (I find auto to miss
>> the target for both cases really :P ).
>> 
> 
> I've already said it before, but it bears repeating yet again.  I also prefer 'scope' for 
> this.  Although 'infer' wouldn't be bad -- but please, please, please, not 'var'!  It 
> smells too much like a scripting language construct, and besides, my Bovis code is 
> overflowing with actual variables named var.  (Probably because of the BVar struct that it 
> passes most values around as.  Go figure.)
> 

'scope' and 'infer' sound good to me, very to-the-point and unambiguous. 
  No need to make people wonder if 'auto' works like in C or not, etc. 
Just drop it.



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