On Variable References

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On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 14:52:26 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 17:14:29 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 08:23:44 UTC, Per Nordlöw 
>> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 08:22:44 UTC, Per Nordlöw 
>>> wrote:
>>>>  int x;
>>>>  auto ref xr;
>>>
>>> Correction: I, of course mean,
>>>
>>>   int x = 42;
>>>   auto ref xr = x;
>>
>> Walter is strongly against adding references a la C++ to D, as 
>> he believes they are too complicated and bug prone. He's made 
>> several posts on this, but I can't find them now.
>
> In DIP69, he himself proposed `ref` locals. However, that's not 
> the same as "references a la C++".

Hmm, it seems that he did. If D were to allow creating ref 
variables, wouldn't D ref be more or less like in C++, then? 
Aside from the weirder things like T&& and such.