[Semi-OT] to!string(enumType)

Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 19 14:04:24 PDT 2017


On Friday, 19 May 2017 at 21:01:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

>
> Wait, what? Doesn't D specifically _not_ have SFINAE? You can 
> use static if to test what compiles, and the branch whose 
> condition compiles is then the on that gets compiled in, which 
> kind of emulates what you'd get with SFINAE, but that's not 
> really the same as SFINAE, which just outright picks the the 
> template specialization which happens to compile while letting 
> the others that don't compile not generate errors. D complains 
> when you have multiple, matching templates. So, what do you 
> mean that D has SFINAE?
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

If a template does trigger a static assert,
that static assert is ignored if there is another template in the 
overload set that could match.



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