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digitalmars.D.learn - We can't have alias of instantiated auto ref functions?

auto a(T)(auto ref T t) {
	return t;
}
void main() {
	alias tmp = a!int;
	import std.stdio;
	writeln(tmp(10));
}

This gives this error message:
test.d(1): Error: 'auto' can only be used as part of 'auto ref' 
for template function parameters

Which is rather useless, and I have to dig into the code to find 
out why: the only way to instantiate a auto ref function is to 
call it. I think this is rather inconvenient.
Mar 18 2017