[OT] Modules dropped out of C++17

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Tue Jun 9 09:27:57 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 15:49:07 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 06/09/2015 02:28 PM, "Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= 
> <schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 11:47:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 10:48:22 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>>>> static assert() is your friend in this case
>>>
>>> The point is that in D you don't need to express ctfe 
>>> guarantee at
>>> all. It just works.
>>
>> Huh? As I understood you, you asked for a guarantee that a 
>> function is
>> CTFEable, in order to "not break other people's code". static 
>> assert()
>> gives you that:
>>
>>     static assert(__traits(compiles, { enum dummy = 
>> myFunction(); }));
>
> What if you don't support it, but it works by accident?

If you don't want to support it, why _would_ you put the static 
assert() in? Or do you mean something else?


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