Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 8 13:01:10 PDT 2016


On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 19:43:39 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 18:16:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>>
>> You may well be literally the only person on Earth who 
>> dislikes the use of "static" in "static if". -- Andrei
>
> You have to admit that static is used in a lot of different 
> places in D. It doesn't always mean something like compile-time 
> either. For instance, a static member function is not a compile 
> time member function. However, I doubt something like this is 
> going to change, so it doesn't really bother me.
>
> I liked the way that the Sparrow language (from the 
> presentation you posted a few weeks ago) did it. Instead of 
> static if, they use if[ct].

I like static if :)



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