CTFE attribute

[Mehrdad]

On 1/28/2012 7:24 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 28/01/2012 15:13, Manu wrote:
>> Sweet, I'll do that for now.
>> You mean static if() right?
>
> No, I mean if().
>
> __ctfe is a magic variable, and during CTFE it is true, at run time it 
> is false. As it is a variable and not a constant, it cannot be read at 
> compile time, so static if() won't work.
>
> See also:
> http://dlang.org/function ctrl+f for __ctfe
>
Why isn't it a constant? o.O