C++ guys hate static_if?

Don turnyourkidsintocash at nospam.com
Thu Mar 14 02:26:19 PDT 2013


On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 03:50:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/8/2013 5:19 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 00:48:59 UTC, 
>> DypthroposTheImposter wrote:
>>>      Are they full of it? Has it caused the problems they 
>>> mention
>>> in
>>> D?
>>
>> Well, the two guys with an alternative proposal 
>> (concepts-lite) seem to hate
>> static if (along with a third guy).
>>
>> There seems to be a lot of strawman arguments in this paper.
>
> Many of the criticisms in the paper are addressed by our 
> positive experience with static if in D.

I think the hard-to-analyze argument is a good one.

I've created an enhancement for some analysis we could do without 
too much work:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9715
(I think my bug report shows a bigger problem with static if, 
than is reported in the paper; the problems arise only when you 
have two static ifs in the same scope).


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