auto storage class - infer or RAII?

[JC]

"Tomas Lindquist Olsen" <tomas at famolsen.dk> wrote in message 
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> JC wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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>>> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>>>> *shivers* by the thought of 'var'
>>> I knew that somehow I couldn't be the only one <g>.
>>
>> I don't see much wrong with 'var'.
>
> My issue with 'var' is that it looks ugly and doesn't really tell you that 
> RAII is in action.

Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. And 'var' was never proposed for 
RAII.