'ref' is a counter-intuitive keyword

[Uther]

@DefinitelyNotRobot

I’m not sure if this has been brought up before but using ‘ref’ in pattern matching can be quite counter-intuitive. I believe a more apt way of expressing reference binding should consist of something that has the opposite meaning to ‘ref’.

Yes, the ref problem was brought up many times before.

But the & seem a wrong to me. There used to be a proposal to use star on the left side :

let *c = x;

It seem more correct to me since the types on both sides of the equal sign have to be equivalent. If c is a reference , you have to dereference it to get x.