@ctfeonly

Paolo Invernizzi paolo.invernizzi at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 11:03:34 UTC 2017


On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 02:14:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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
>
>
> T

Woaaa... amazing job, Teoh!

It seems that no link in the wiki points to that, or I'm wrong?
That valuable stuff should be more visible...

/Paolo




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