Leandro Lucarella wrote: > Sean Kelly, el 18 de enero a las 16:10 me escribiste: >> 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." > > I was under that impression too, but that's not what my test show. You can > write auto int x = 5;, it fails to compile with an error saying that > x have both explicit type and auto. I find this very odd, I think auto > should be a regular storage class. >
auto int foo = 5; Works fine for me, dmd 2.037
