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On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 21:51:49 UTC, Namespace wrote:
>> Knee-jerk response: if no "return" attribute on a function it 
>> should be safe to bind rvalues to ref parameters. Of course 
>> that's impractical as a default so explicit "auto ref" would 
>> be needed. -- Andrei
>
> Would it be to hasty if someone would start implementing auto 
> ref for non-templates right now? Or should a more experienced 
> user do that? Just in case I can contribute somehow.

I took the liberty to begin with an implementation. Thanks to 
Kenjiis work, it was not too difficult, I had to adjust only the 
changes on the new code base:

https://github.com/Dgame/dmd/tree/auto-ref-for-non-templates

Maybe this could be reviewed as soon as 'return ref' is fully 
implemented.