That's on the mark. We need to make auto ref work with
non-templates as well as templates, safely. The implementation
mechanics may be different. Lifetime of temporaries is an
important detail. I discuss such in
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9238 but I never
had the time to finish it.
Andrei
3. The relationship with auto ref is insufficiently described,
e.g. there should be clarification on why auto ref cannot be
improved to fulfill the desired role.
I and probably many other have thought that auto ref cannot work
for non-templates because that would mean, that auto ref would
work differently for templates and non-templates. That was the
main reason to search for an alternative.
But have you any ideas how auto ref should do this for
non-templates?
E.g. with creating temporary lvalues, doubled the function etc.?
That would make it easier to support you.
