Code security: "auto" / Reason for errors

[Ozan via Digitalmars-d]

Hi

I despair of "auto var1 = var2"for arrays. Isn't it a open door 
for errors. Example

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
        int[] a;
        foreach(i; 0..10) a ~= i;
        auto b = a; // correct dlang coding: auto b = a.dup;
        
        a[2] = 1;
        b[2] = 5; // Overwrites assignment before
        writeln(a);
	writeln(b); // Always a == b but developer would like to have (a 
!= b)
}

The behaviour is different to other non-container datatypes.
So in a first view, it looks like a data copy but it's only a 
pointer copy.

Regards, Ozan