...not imply RAII.  One example I can think of that would
break RAII is if...

Sounds reasonable to me, and potentially quite useful (even if often primarily for self-documenting...

Someone noted that

 x = SomeName();

is confusing, since it doesn't convey whether a class...

Actually yes. I find it to be clearer than just static x.
I agree on...

They're normally in trivial one-line functions.

No, the idea is *not* to have...

I guess there are regular "var" users then but when I said "programmers"
I was...

Nils Hensel wrote:

Agreed ( it's also one letter shorter :-) )

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kris wrote:

Agreed. I also don't think 'missing new' proposal is good.

Looks ok...

Ok.

Exactly. I never suggested otherwise :)

Example?

Have you read my other post?
Are you...

Maybe we could decide that based on the keyword's placement:

class C {
    int m...