static if - is the 'static' really needed?

[Chris Cain]

On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 12:10:02 UTC, comco wrote:
> Imagine a world in which a simple 'if' has the semantics of a 
> static if, if the condition is evaluable at CT. Is this a world 
> you would rather live in?

They are fundamentally two different things. Eliding the 
difference is not a good idea. I'm with Jesse, I wish we had a 
"static foreach" because it's also a significant difference as 
well.

> "we don't need _static else_" -- why do we even need 'static' 
> in 'static if' by this reasoning?

Not exactly sure what the context of this is, but I suspect he 
was saying "we don't need _static else_" because we don't need it 
to resolve ambiguities in the AST (which is true). OTOH we would 
need 'static' in 'static if' to resolve the ambiguities in the 
semantics.