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.

That will have some affect on this:

     int (a) = 3;
     writefln(a);
     int (exit) = 9;
     writefln(exit);

which all is currently ok.  But with scope as a storage class, this:

     scope (exit) ;

would become ambiguious.  Is it an empty scope(exit){} or is it a scoped 
variable called exit that wasn't initialized?

Not a huge deal, but perhaps a reason to consider using 'scoped' for the 
storage class instead of reusing the 'scope' keyword.

--bb