Auto syntax revisited

[Bruno Medeiros]

Fredrik Olsson wrote:
> After some discussion on #d I though why not put my thoughts into more 
> permanent writing.
> 
> Keyword auto is used for two reasons; implicit type and making sure the 
> object is destroyed when going out of scope. I suggest a new keyword for 
> the latter: local.
> 

Regardless of semantic changes (as a semantic change in auto-RAII might 
make it work without keyword), I wish for:
  auto for auto-RAII
  var for auto-type
Why these names? Auto-RAII implies an action in run-time, whereas 
auto-type is a compile-time only action, with no run-time effects. The 
name 'auto' sounds more action-like than 'var', so it fits better being 
assigned to auto-RAII.
Also, 'var' is shorter than 'auto', with only three letters, which is 
also nice, since auto-type is mainly a syntactic sugar feature, so with 
'var' it is one less character to type.

I wonder what Walter's plans for this are. It's been a while since this 
ambiguity was introduced and news on this have come.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
"Certain aspects of D are a pathway to many abilities some consider to 
be... unnatural."