Proposal: static template(fail)

[Bill Baxter]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 12/13/07, Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote:
>> All you need is *anything* that would generate an ordinary compiler
>> error.
> 
> The idea is /not/ to generate a compiler error. :-)

Right, and it won't because as you've been reiterating "substitution 
error is not a failure".  If the template results in a something that's 
an ordinary syntax error then it's just a substitution failure.  "static 
assert" is special in that it short circuits that behavior.

--bb