static if enhancement

[QAston via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 15:24:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Does anyone else find this annoying? 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16201 -- Andrei

Please no. I'd argue that this brings more confusion than 
readibility. Imagine reading more complicated code with this. You 
have to do control flow analysis on if-block to determine whether 
code outside of if block is included in compilation. Doesn't 
sound good for reading, does it.

Imagine explaining static if block rules to new people. "Well 
static if works this way, except it doesn't create scope. Also, 
we have this another special rule, where we create else blocks 
implicitly if all paths in static-if block return early. This 
saves you writing six characters and an intendation level."

Also - metaprogramming. You don't know the control flow of 
whatever you may be printing in a mixin, or having as a parameter 
in a template. Making such code even more difficult to analyze.