return by auto ref horribly broken ?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, February 18, 2013 12:10:37 monarch_dodra wrote:
> Am I wrong in my analysis? More importantly, how would this mix
> with DIP 25 (http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25) ?

I think that auto ref falls in pretty much exactly the same camp that ref 
does. It's not really any different except that under some circumstances, it 
ends up being ref, and in some it doesn't. And at minimum, as long as it's 
ref, it's going to need to follow exactly the same restrictions that normal 
ref would per DIP 25, and it may be that it needs to follow the same 
restrictions regardless (since if it didn't, then you could end up with a 
function that worked as long as the return type wasn't ref but failed to 
compile if it were, in which case, you might as well have just used auto).

- Jonathan M Davis