The point of const, scope, and other attributes

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 09:45:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> TBH, for cases like these, I'd just use a pointer and check for 
> null
>
> [...]
>
> No need to fear pointers, they're in the language for a reason.

Quite fair, of course.  One doesn't _need_ mutable auto ref to 
achieve the use cases above ... but one could conceivably use it 
if one was so inclined.