The stately := operator feature proposal

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 5/30/13, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> I still like:
>
> 	x := 1
>
> for a declaration and initialization with type inference.

Well the saying goes, even a broken clock..

Personally I think it's way too late for such a feature. What if you
make a typo and instead of declaring a new shadowed variable you end
up modifying an existing one?

int x;
void main()
{
    auto x = 5;  // so far so good, it's obviously a new variable
}

vs:

int x;
void main()
{
    x := 5;
}

which with a typo becomes:

int x;
void main()
{
    x = 5;
}

Could you easily spot the bug?