Re: to auto or not to auto ( in foreach )

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 14:00:56 UTC, dom wrote:
foreach(auto v; msg)
  writeln(v);
gives an error that a basic type is expected

foreach(v; msg)
  writeln(v);

works

.. but why?


`Note: The ForeachTypeAttribute is implicit, and when a type is 
not specified, it is inferred. In that case, auto is implied, and 
it is not necessary (and actually forbidden) to use it.`
http://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#ForeachStatement