C++ guys hate static_if?

[Timon Gehr]

On 03/14/2013 09:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/14/2013 12:51 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 03/14/2013 08:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 3/14/2013 10:20 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>>>> Maybe we then should help people that routinely instantiate their
>>>> templates to
>>>> see if they compile.
>>>
>>> We already have a tool to do this:
>>>
>>>     dmd -cov test.d
>>>
>>
>> But it does not work.
>>
>> See this recent D.learn thread:
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/wwjaeexnyaeqnqsqydte@forum.dlang.org
>
> -cov works fine for templates containing executable code.

Then it is not what Dmitry was asking for. Anyway -cov is near-useless 
for me because it does not support string mixins (execution attributed 
to wrong code line) and executable code coming from template mixins 
(sometimes counted, sometimes not).