On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 03:54:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
That isn't legal. auto ref can only be used with templated
functions.
- Jonathan M Davis
The trouble is, distinguishing between when it should be illegal
seems like a blur to me.
Consider all the cases like:
- <Regular method>
- <Mixin method>
- <Template method>
- Lambdas (in all forms)
- Template class, <regular method>
- Template class, <template method>
- Regular class, <template method>
- Regular class, template method, <mixin method>
- Regular class, regular method, <mixin method>
- Template class, regular method, <mixin method>
- <Templates inside mixins>
- yada yada
It becomes a *nightmare* to try to get everything right, when
you're dealing with templates and mixins. And you run into bugs
like this.
Why not just allow 'auto ref' for every function type?
