"else if" for template constraints

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On Monday, 17 August 2015 at 17:17:15 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 8/17/15 1:00 PM, Idan Arye wrote:
>
>> It looks a bit ugly, that the `else` is after a function 
>> declaration
>> instead of directly after the if's "then" clause. How about 
>> doing it
>> with the full template style?
>>
>>      template replaceInPlace(T, Range)
>>      if(isDynamicArray!Range &&
>>          is(Unqual!(ElementEncodingType!Range) == T) &&
>>          !is(T == const T) &&
>>          !is(T == immutable T))
>>      {
>>          void replaceInPlace(ref T[] array, size_t from, 
>> size_t to,
>> Range stuff)
>>          { /* version 1 that tries to write into the array 
>> directly */ }
>>      }
>>      else if(is(typeof(replace(array, from, to, stuff))))
>>      {
>>          void replaceInPlace(ref T[] array, size_t from, 
>> size_t to,
>> Range stuff)
>>          { /* version 2, which simply forwards to replace */ }
>>      }
>
> Yes, I like this much better.
>
> -Steve

At that point, couldn't you just use static if inside the body of 
the template instead of using template constraints?