auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[Tydr Schnubbis]

Tydr Schnubbis wrote:
> Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
>>> Considering that scope already exists as a keyword, I find this an excellent
>>> suggestion that is also very much clearer in meaning (I find auto to miss
>>> the target for both cases really :P ).
>>> 
>> 
>> I've already said it before, but it bears repeating yet again.  I also prefer 'scope' for 
>> this.  Although 'infer' wouldn't be bad -- but please, please, please, not 'var'!  It 
>> smells too much like a scripting language construct, and besides, my Bovis code is 
>> overflowing with actual variables named var.  (Probably because of the BVar struct that it 
>> passes most values around as.  Go figure.)
>> 
> 
> 'scope' and 'infer' sound good to me, very to-the-point and unambiguous. 
>   No need to make people wonder if 'auto' works like in C or not, etc. 
> Just drop it.

It just occurred to me that since it's not the keyword itself that makes 
type inference happen, but the lack of a type specifier, maybe 'var' is 
better than 'infer' after all.  I mean, since it doesn't really do 
anything, per se.