Walter: Before you go and implement the new RAII syntax..

[Georg Wrede]

Robert Atkinson wrote:
> I believe that if we keep the auto/auto syntax, it will be a feature 
> that everyone will love at first, but years from now it'll be the 
> feature that we'll be cursing when we all have to maintain code. 
> Scanning code quickly its hard to determine with the current auto/auto 
> syntax if its RAII or auto typing.

Auto/auto will be ridiculed by those never aiming to switch to D. It 
will cause havoc when teaching the language. And it will embarrass each 
of us later when folks ask "weren't you in the D community? How come you 
didn't get rid of that thing already pre 1.0??"

Having things that look alike be different (and while I'm at it, also 
things that look different be the same), is something that belongs to 
wicked computer games, or stupid job admission tests.

Distinct concepts have to have distinct names. Clarity is the word.