auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[JC]

"Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>> *shivers* by the thought of 'var'
>
> I knew that somehow I couldn't be the only one <g>.

I don't see much wrong with 'var'. It has the nice connotation that it 
represents a variable, at least.

As for RAII, just using a keyword alone doesn't seem to cut it. If 
references are to be automatically deleted at the end of a scope, that 
infers that a scope is actually introduced, which to me is signified by a 
matching pair of curly brackets. I'd like to be able to specify the extent 
of the scope, perhaps like this:

void drawBox(Rectangle rect, Colour colour) {
  scope (DrawingContext dc = createDrawingContext()) {
    scope (Pen pen = new Pen(colour)) {
      dc.drawRectangle(pen, rect);
    } // pen is freed here
  } // dc is freed here
}

Used this way, 'scope' as the RAII keyword makes sense.