https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8121
--- Comment #7 from Marco Leise <marco.le...@gmx.de> --- The meaning is very clear: This reference is not going to outlive the function scope. The compiler implementation is lacking behind on static checks, but that's not a reason to disallow it or for the current schizophrenic behavior where `scope int*` is allowed but `scope ref int` is an error. (Personally I expect some limited lifetime checks to be coming to D in the future. If just for the sake of passing different pointer types (stack, RC, heap) uniformly to such functions that take scope pointers.) --
