auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[Carlos Santander]

Walter Bright escribió:
> 
> My problem with "var" is the history of the keyword. Back in the olden 
> days, there were two main camps of programmers - the Pascal people, and 
> the C people. Each camp looked with disdain upon the other as "not 
> getting it". The Pascal crowd progressed to Modula 2, Object Pascal, and 
> eventually Delphi. The C family progressed to C++, Java, and D. There 
> didn't seem to be much voluntary mixing up, people would switch camps 
> only under duress.
> 
> So I have a real (possibly outdated) concern that "var" appearing in D 
> will make the language distasteful to the C crowd. The appearance of a 
> language matters a lot, it's like the clothes one wears that identifies 
> one (consciously or not) as being with a particular group.
> 
> And that's why I've avoided using "var".
> 
> ("let" is far worse, as it gives the impression that D is some sort of 
> new Basic language.)
> 
> 

I don't think they're valid concerns (meaning they're subjective, not everyone 
will have those ideas), but I think we (the D community) just want a way to 
clearly differentiate both meanings of auto. So, choose any two words: 
auto/scope, var/auto, def/scoped, foo/bar, and let's move on.

Also keep in mind that your option #5 (auto c = Class()) doesn't seem to be a 
popular proposal (based on what has been said in the ng).

-- 
Carlos Santander Bernal