fwiw - quora on stroustrup/static if/D

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 17:36:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> https://www.quora.com/What-does-Bjarne-Stroustrup-think-about-different-programming-languages

The C++ standard committee already reviewed static_if
IIRC Andrei and Walter said they were being incredibly unfair.


http://forum.dlang.org/thread/cdgzdesltjefjvnjbspk@forum.dlang.org#post-cdgzdesltjefjvnjbspk:40forum.dlang.org
pretty long thread on it if you want to dig through it.

And I'll end my post with an excerpt from the ISOCPP paper, and 
IMO the reason C++ is the way it is:

> Being a new and realtively simple-to-use new feature, static_if 
> would un-
> doubtedly be used by many who have no need for the relatively 
> small increme-
> natal improvement in performance offered.