if(;){} opinion

[Walter Bright]

"Georg Wrede" <georg at nospam.org> wrote in message 
news:4401ECE3.4030207 at nospam.org...
> Now consider:
>
>         if (Regexp m = std.regexp.search("abcdef", "b(c)d"))
>         {
>             writefln("[%s]", m.pre);      // prints [a]
>             writefln("[%s]", m.post);     // prints [ef]
>             writefln("[%s]", m.match(0)); // prints [bcd]
>             writefln("[%s]", m.match(1)); // prints [c]
>             writefln("[%s]", m.match(2)); // prints []
>         }
>
> Flaunting this around (to both the original programmers, and also to 
> virgin victims), gave the same, _immediate_ comment from everybody: "Ah, 
> that's neat!"

The idea behind m; was to be like foreach. What do the "victims" <g> think 
of:

if (auto m = std.regexp.search("abcdef", "b(c)d"))

?