auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[Bill Baxter]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Carlos Santander wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> I think the auto/scope is probably the best idea.
> 
>> 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).
> 
> 
> I'm a bit surprised at that, but the negative reaction to it is pretty 
> clear.

And I'm a bit surprised by your surprise, given that it creates a 
special case rule for one particular, not-so-common situation, *AND* at 
the same time breaks static opCall.

--bb