[Semi-OT] to!string(enumType)

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, May 19, 2017 9:04:24 PM PDT Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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.

Why on earth would it work that way? It sounds like a bug to me.

- Jonathan M Davis