The stately := operator feature proposal

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On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 23:50:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> There are orders of magnitudes of difference between providing 
> a new
> abstraction like a class and simply rewriting
>
> auto i = foo;
>
> as
>
> i := foo;
>
> _All_ it does is save you 4 characters and shift where in the 
> statement the
> piece is that tells the compiler to infer the type.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

+1

I really hope such stuff will _never ever_ get into official D 
spec. It is just going to be a disaster for language that aims to 
be general-purpose and doesn't want to die because of minor 
detail overload complexity, like C++ did.

That syntax obession makes me afraid. Shorter lambdas had at 
least some rationale.