C++17 cannot beat D surely

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/03/2017 07:41 PM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 22:18:06 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>
>> There is no mistake. (But 'auto' is redundant.)
>>
>>> void main() {
>>>      import std.algorithm, std.stdio;
>>>      enum a = [ 3, 1, 2, 4, 0 ];
>>>      enum b = sort(a);// static is not CT !!!!!
>>>      static assert(b[0] == 0); // does not pass with static auto b...
>>>      writeln(b);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is worse. Now there is an allocation at runtime.
> 
> So maybe we can do a blog post on when to use static or enum? Because 
> smart people don't seem to be agreeing on this...

Yes please! cc Mike. -- Andrei