C++ guys hate static_if?

[Era Scarecrow]

On Sunday, 10 March 2013 at 02:35:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/9/2013 8:22 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
>> Things can get evenmore hairy,when you are operating on 2 
>> different types.
>
> This is why complex expressions can be encapsulated as 
> functions.
>
>>
>> One last thing to keep in mind is that having constraints 
>> allows hijacking, whereas concpets/static asserts resolve as 
>> an ambigus call.
>
> I don't see where the hijacking comes in.

  From the bad examples I think he was meaning declaring new 
functions in the static_if that might not be in the other tree; 
But proper use of static if doesn't cause those problems.