It is a terse way of assigning and initializing an automatically typed variable, helping meld what I understand one of D's aims to be that of the power of a C/C++ language with some of the syntactic elegance of languages like Python. In broad terms D and Go would seem to outline the general direction of C/C++ ideas, it would seem like a good idea to use the good ideas of each to move toward the optimum language.

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