C++ guys hate static_if?

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 00:48:59 UTC, DypthroposTheImposter 
wrote:
>        See the static_if paper here:
>
> http://isocpp.org/forums
>
> Under the post "constraints and static if" there is a link to a
> document about
> static_if
>
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDIyMDc3NjUwMTczOTM0Mjk3NjABMDI2MzM3MjkxNDM4NDQ5MzE4NDcBLWVsS1Y4dFhtdDhKATUBaXNvY3BwLm9yZwF2Mg
>
>       Are they full of it? Has it caused the problems they 
> mention
> in
> D?

I think most of the point made in this document are moot. Still 
static if in D don't define many corner cases that are 
implementation defined. But that don't change much unless you 
really go into tricky code. Most static if "just work", so this 
is really positive at the end !