Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 9 07:38:50 PDT 2016


On 07/09/2016 12:32 AM, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
> On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 18:16:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 07/07/2016 10:25 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
>>> D's "static if" - which is a killer feature if I ignore the keyword -
>>> gives me a similar feeling (though it's much less egregious than
>>> "return" in monads). "static" is a terribly non-descriptive name because
>>> there are so many senses in which a thing could be "dynamic".
>>
>> You may well be literally the only person on Earth who dislikes the
>> use of "static" in "static if". -- Andrei
>
> Aha! But I don't!

Great to hear you don't dislike it! :o) -- Andrei



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