C++ guys hate static_if?

[simendsjo]

On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 09:12:30 UTC, Jouko Koski wrote:
> "Walter Bright"  wrote:
>
>> Many of the criticisms in the paper are addressed by our 
>> positive experience with static if in D.
>
> Sometimes I do find it confusing that { does or does not 
> introduce a new scope in a very similar-looking contexts.

Is there more constructs than static if that doesn't create a 
scope?