Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Max Samukha via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 04:32:25 UTC, Andrew Godfrey wrote:

> Aha! But I don't! It feels intuitive, possibly the best use of 
> "static". But that is immaterial, what matters is the sum of 
> all meanings of "static" in this language. The "single instance 
> per class" meaning of "static" is just bonkers. I've had that 
> meaning burned into my brain for a couple of decades, from C++. 
> But I don't have to like it!
> I could stomach it, though, if that was the only use of the 
> keyword. (Or if the other meanings couldn't be used in the same 
> contexts).

The name is fine. It comes from 'statically bound/dispatched', 
that is 'resolved at compile time'.