auto ref is on the docket
Daniel N via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 22 13:42:56 PDT 2015
On Monday, 22 June 2015 at 05:25:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The idea is that fun(5) would be lowered to:
>
> auto tmp = 5;
> fun(tmp);
>
> But when talking to Andrei I didn't realize that it would be
> subtly different behavior than 'auto ref' for template
> functions, which makes me concerned that this is not a good
> idea.
Considering we already have working 'Sealed references', why not
simply allow rvalues for plain ref?
Bonus: No risk of mixup with template auto ref after refactoring
etc.
Save auto for other potential future use.
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