auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>
>> It is definitely a bit weird. I would like to see all combinations of 
>> these fail. they dont make any sense together. all provide ATI if 
>> present. the only problem I can see is if you want to put a constant 
>> inside a static block. but maybe that is handled differently?
>>
>> IMHO this would make sense:
>>
>> Invalid:
>> ---------
>> static const x = 5;
> 
> What's wrong with static and const together?
> One says this is actually store with globals not on the stack, the other 
> says the value isn't going to change.  Nothing inconsistent about having 
> those two together.
Does it really make sense to have the programmer decide this 
distinction? A global const will definitely have static storage. But why 
  not let the compiler decide?

I just don't see where having this choice is useful!