C++ guys hate static_if?

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 10 March 2013 at 22:49:53 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 14:09:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> On 3/8/13 7:48 PM, 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?
>>
>> Wow. That's quite out of character for Bjarne. I think it's 
>> quite a poor piece.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Indeed, from the start, it doesn't seem to give a fair 
> assessment of the value of the feature.
> As for rejecting your proposal, don't take it too personnally. 
> In the contrary, the inclusion of static if would have been the 
> single reason for C++ users not to migrate en masse to D. Think 
> that there won't be a good solution for C++ before another 20 
> years. By the time it is proposed, this is a good opportunity 
> for D to mature and conquer hearts.

Concepts have some drawbacks, but are also supperior in many way 
to static if. This isn't a black and white situation.