@ctfeonly

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 11:03:34AM +0000, Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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...
[...]

The reason nothing (official) points to it, is because it's still a
draft that hasn't been polished, and some parts may not be 100%
accurate.  Unfortunately, I haven't had the time to work on finishing it
up.

But since it's a wiki, if you're up to it, contributions are welcome.
:-)


T

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