Static constructors guaranteed to run?

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 06/27/2015 11:54 AM, "Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= 
<schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
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>> Also are static constructors in templated types guaranteed to run for
>> every instantiation? Even if the instantiation is never actually used
>> outside of compile time code, like in an alias or in a UDA?
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> Definitely not. Things inside a template don't even exist if that
> template is never instantiated.

(That wasn't his question.)