'Auto can only be used for template function arguments' what?

[Artur Skawina]

On 06/27/12 07:27, kenji hara wrote:
> 2012/6/27 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>:
>> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 07:02:28 Mehrdad wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 04:26:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> And how would that work? auto ref duplicates the function. If
>>>> you pass it an lvalue, then it generates a ref version.
>>>
>>> Two solutions:
>>>
>>> - Turn 'auto ref' into 'ref', but simply have the compiler
>>> generate a copy for the caller if he wants to pass by value?
>>
>> That at least sounds like it would work. Walter may have a reason why it
>> doesn't though, since he's the one that said that he didn't think that it was
>> possible. Maybe he just didn't think of it, or maybe it causes some other
>> problem that I can't think of.
> 
> After considering about 'auto ref', I was concluded that is an
> inconsistency of current language spec and we cannot fix it correctly.
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8204
> 
> Therefore, I have created a thread to suggest new 'auto ref' recently.
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/CAFDvkcvf6G8Mc01Tds6ydXqCZbfp1q-a-oeFVk6BGEtwCiUAqg@mail.gmail.com

Please do not remove useful functionality in order to fix unrelated
problems. "auto ref" isn't perfect, but it works well for some cases.
A new "override ref" could work like you describe.

artur