auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

JC wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:ej9acb$1sac$2 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> 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'.

My issue with 'var' is that it looks ugly and doesn't really tell you 
that RAII is in action.

> It has the nice connotation that it represents a variable, at least.

The other storage classes work for variables too!

> 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. 
> 
> 

*Please* no!