@ctfeonly

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:20:57PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> In spite of the fact that CTFE is done at compile time, __ctfe is a
> runtime thing - it's just that it's runtime from the perspective of
> CTFE. So, stuff like static if or static assert doesn't work. You have
> to use if or a ternary operator or some other runtime conditional,
> though it's a common misunderstanding that __ctfe is used with static
> if, and people screw it up all the time. I don't know why it's a
> runtime thing rather than a compile time thing though. There's
> probably a good reason for it, but at first glance, it seems like a
> rather weird choice.
[...]

Sigh:

	https://wiki.dlang.org/User:Quickfur/Compile-time_vs._compile-time


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