Choosing arity of a template function

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 23:53:06 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 23:46:11 +0000, cym13 wrote:
>> On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 23:18:30 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
>> wrote:
>>> On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 23:11:32 UTC, Andrei 
>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Urgh, forgot the "static" in front of the second "if". It 
>>>> does work now.
>>>
>>>  Perhaps that should be an error instead; Going from a static 
>>> if to an else if... seems easy enough to spot and insist a 
>>> fix (much like assignment inside an if statement is illegal).
>> 
>> What about automatically inferring it? It sounds reasonnable, 
>> much like saying that "static" actually is for the whole 
>> if/elseif block.
>
>   static if (oggSupportEnabled)
>     playOggFile();
>   else
>     if (config.loggingEnabled)
>       info("ogg support not enabled; skipping playback");
>
> So, no, unless you want to make curly braces mandatory for 
> conditional bodies.

  Only for switching between static and non-static code. Besides 
with the static if's, 1 level of bracing doesn't make a new scope 
anyways (if i remember correctly).