Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote "The Last Thing D Needs"

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

29-May-2014 23:29, Walter Bright пишет:
> On 5/29/2014 11:11 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> Static if is certainly NOT an attribute, it doesn't make any sense.
>
> Yes, it does make sense. It was not an accident that the frontend treats
> it as it does, the code to do it was deliberately put there.

With the reason being? I could deliberately put any code anywhere.

> The attributes are all designed to affect a block of code - so are
> version/debug/staticif - why should they be different?

Because they are different constructs?
static if models if-else, so does the version statement BTW (else 
version). debug doesn't model if-else. I could see *some* common ground 
between them.

safe/pure/nogc etc. are different in that they all affect symbols and 
have no conditional clause, *some* of them even have counterparts 
(consistency? - I do not see any).

This for instance doesn't work:

static if(1):
     int blah;
else
{}

while this does:

static if(1)
     int blah;
else:


Does it make any sense? To me - no, not at all.
Not every decision must be taken on the grounds of making some code in 
compiler more straightforward.
After all C's #include was so simple to implement and we know where this 
way leads to.

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky