auto functions not authorized inside main?

[BCS]

Hello Rory,

> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:17:25 +0200, Philippe Sigaud
> <philippe.sigaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> void main()
>> {
>> auto fun(string s) { return s;} // this does not compile
>> }
>
> Hope this isn't a stupid question, but how would you access this
> function
> if it did work?
> Would it be fun("asdf")?
> Is this just shorthand for:
> auto fun = function(string s) {return s;};

I would look almost the same to the user but should in fact be a normal local 
function.

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