Tidy auto [Was: Re: @disable]

[Leandro Lucarella]

Sean Kelly, el 18 de enero a las 16:10 me escribiste:
> bearophile Wrote:
> 
> > Walter Bright:
> > > Andrei introduced me to that style, and I'm starting to use it more and 
> > > more. I like it for the reasons you state.
> > 
> > I'm not using it because I'm not using D2 much yet, but I have read that a good number of people are adopting that style in other languages as Scala, so it can be a good way to program (I can appreciate it myself). If this is true then a syntax like:
> > auto immutable x = y * 2;
> > 
> > can be seen as too much long and boring to write all the time, so the "immutable" keyword may need to be changed again :-)
> 
> Fortunately, the "auto" keyword can be left out.  "auto" is actually
> a storage class, it doesn't directly mean "infer the type."

I was under that impression too, but that's not what my test show. You can
write auto int x = 5;, it fails to compile with an error saying that
x have both explicit type and auto. I find this very odd, I think auto
should be a regular storage class.

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