function pointer and alias questions

[BCS]

Reply to Chris,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Reply to Chris,
>> 
>>> A static statement is evaluated at
>>> runtime, or else it throws an error if it isn't possible to evaluate
>>> it at runtime.
>> That would be compile time? (OTOH "static if" and "static assert" are
>> construct in there own right rather than statements modified with
>> static.)
>> 
> Yes, my brain flipped the two.  Thanks for catching that error!
>

If I had a dollar for every time I did something like that, I'd quit my job 
and write programs for fun... Oh wait that would be the same as now but I 
wouldn't get paid :(