static property without return type

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/17/13, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote:
> No, if the return type is missing, it is deduced.

What are you talking about? You can't write:

foo() { return 0; }

> 'auto' does not mean type deduction! It's a crutch for the parser. In
> fact, the meaning of 'auto' is basically carried over unchanged from C.

auto means something completely different in C.

> Requiring 'auto' would be inconsistent.

It's required without 'static/@safe/@property/pure' and other
attributes, it's completely pointless that adding any of these should
allow you to avoid specifying the return type.