On 4 May 2012 23:16, Jakob Ovrum <jakobovrum@gmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps it would be better if "a" was declared like this:

ref(int) a ();

ref is not a type qualifier, I think that would be even more confusing. It would be completely out of sync with the rest of the language.

But maybe it should be, then you'd be able to declare ref variables anywhere, like in C++... what's the disadvantage of that?