Assert compilation failure with certain message

[Tomek Sowiński]

Andrej Mitrovic napisał:

> I've managed to screw up the colon placement though, here's a quick fix:
> 
> import std.stdio;
> import std.conv;
> 
> void staticAssert(alias exp, string message, string file = __FILE__,
> int line = __LINE__)()
> {
>     static if (!exp)
>     {
>         pragma(msg, file ~ "(" ~ to!string(line) ~ "): " ~
> "staticAssert: " ~  to!string(message));
>         assert(0);
>     }
> }
> 
> void main()
> {
>     enum x = false;
>     staticAssert!(x, "Oh no we failed!");
> 
>     int y;
> }

How does it help to find out that compilation tripped on a specific static assertion?

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Tomek