auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrey Khropov wrote:
>>
>>> Well, 'var' is used in C# 3.0 for this purpose (which is obviously a 
>>> C-family
>>> language and a popular one)
>>
>>
>> C# was designed by a Anders Hjelsberg, who wrote Pascal compilers and 
>> designed Delphi.
> 
> Good point.  But have you heard *anyone* complain that they don't want 
> to use C# because it's too much like Pascal?

Nope. But I also don't have a billion dollars to spend to convince 
people to look deeper than a first impression.