On 09.11.2011 00:57, bearophile wrote:
Walter:
The whole "too many keywords" issue strikes me as strange. English has over a
million words in it. Who cares if a language uses 80 or 100 of them? What
difference can it possibly make? How can an extra 20 words pollute the million
word namespace (and not including any non-word identifiers (like inout))?
I agree. This is also why I have suggested "auto_ref" instead of "auto ref",
that I think is a bit confusing.
"auto ref" is something we should *really* get rid of. Because it isn't
'auto'.
There should be a symmetry between:
auto --- const
auto ref --- const ref
But there isn't. The correct patten is:
auto --- const
ref --- const ref
auto ref --- const auto ref
And note that auto const ref is not the same as const auto ref.
I'd be happy with auto_ref or autoref or pretty much any sequence of
characters that doesn't contain " auto ".
