Local functions infer attributes?

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 at 11:45:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
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> (it is only pointers after all).

Semi-tangential to this discussion, but this bit hits on 
something I've been thinking for a little while... ref is, at its 
core, trying to be a non-nullable pointer.  And I get the strong 
sense that it's failing at it.

-Wyatt