On 07/24/2015 05:01 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
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> .....ironically, given the other thread about statements as expressions where i said 'meh', this is actually a decent case for them too, to get the return value of foo out of that scope while still allowing auto.

It would make sense to extend the if statement rule [¹] to with [²] and switch [³].

[¹]: http://dlang.org/grammar.html#IfStatement
[²]: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13526
[³]: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11070