auto ref and non-templated functions

[Era Scarecrow]

On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 at 22:52:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 23:02:25 deadalnix wrote:
>> Sound like the way to go for me. But is auto ref needed in such
>> case ? Why not simply allow ref to behave that way ?
>
> Because there's a very large difference between a function 
> intended to take arguments by ref and one where you don't care.

>> With auto ref, you're specifically saying that you don't care 
>> whether the function is given an lvalue or rvalue. You just 
>> want it to avoid unnecessary copies. That's very different. 
>> And auto ref then not only then protects you from cases of 
>> passing an rvalue to a function when it needs an lvalue, but 
>> it makes it clear in the function signature which is expected.

  Not to bring back something that might be considered closed, But 
is auto ref going to be allowed for non-template functions in an 
upcoming version? There's plenty of times I'd like to use ref 
when possible but don't want to write a forwarding function 
converting non-ref to ref.