C++ static-if; how is it so different?

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 02:38:57 UTC, lobo wrote:
> If anyone knows why the proposal claims to be so different from 
> D's static-if (modulo the restrictions mentioned) I'd be 
> interested to know why.

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