auto ref and non-templated functions

[Peter Alexander]

On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 00:56:44 UTC, Peter Alexander 
wrote:
> On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 17:40:54 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> And if that doesn't work, can we simply make it so that the 
>> compiler
>> automatically creates a variable when you pass an rvalue to a 
>> non-templated
>> auto ref function?
>
> I don't see any problems with this, but I admittedly haven't 
> thought too much about it.

If there are no problems with this way, then what I want to know 
is why the template version of auto ref wasn't implemented this 
way. The way auto ref is currently implemented for templates is a 
bit of a mess.