bearophile Wrote: > Walter Bright: > > Andrei introduced me to that style, and I'm starting to use it more and > > more. I like it for the reasons you state. > > I'm not using it because I'm not using D2 much yet, but I have read that a > good number of people are adopting that style in other languages as Scala, so > it can be a good way to program (I can appreciate it myself). If this is true > then a syntax like: > auto immutable x = y * 2; > > can be seen as too much long and boring to write all the time, so the > "immutable" keyword may need to be changed again :-)
Fortunately, the "auto" keyword can be left out. "auto" is actually a storage class, it doesn't directly mean "infer the type."