Question about auto ref

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 00:52:56 Namespace wrote:
> Forgot to ask:
> Wouldn't it be better to publish this decision?
> Many still believe the nonsense (like me) that 'auto ref' is
> still the solution.

An official decision would mean that Walter had been involved in it, and that 
hasn't happened. IIRC, Andrei said something positive about the temporary 
approach when it was brought up, but AFAIK, no official decision has been made.
It's just that it became clear when discussing it that if we wanted to go with 
the temporary trick (which looks like the best solution), it really should 
apply to both templated and non-templated functions and that auto ref needs to 
retain its current meaning for templated functions, which then means that we 
need a new attribute. I suppose that we could always create a DIP for it 
though.

- Jonathan M Davis