deadalnix:
I still have some trouble to figure out the proper definition of it. And what can't be defined clearly is probably not understood enough to create a feature.
While "scope" is probably not the most important feature to work now in D (const/immutable issues, and shared issues are possibly more important), it's one of the important unfinished parts of D.
It needs a design, and later a partial implementation. Being a core language issue I think "scope" is more important than optimization issues, like this one:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/4b139c0a217ccbf3c71a0d993eb6e3556254de60 Bye, bearophile