The accepted proposal does address and preserve `auto`'s use as a storage class, so `auto x = foo(y);` means type deduction based on the return type of `foo`, a

The accepted proposal does address and preserve `auto`'s use as a storage class, so `auto x = foo(y);` means type deduction based on the return type of `foo`, and `auto int x = 10;` declares an integer with automatic storage duration.