Troubles with template constraints on string and static if

sungal francesco.galla at edu.unito.it
Thu Apr 26 15:06:49 UTC 2018


I have this piece of code and I can't understand why the `static 
if` conditionals are always false.

```
import std.digest.sha;
import std.file;
import std.stdio;

void main()
{
     auto hash1 = produceHash!string("prova.d");
     auto hash2 = produceHash!File(File("./prova.d"));
}

string produceHash(Type)(Type data)
     if(is(Type == string) || is(Type == File))
{
     string h;
     static if(is(Type == File)) {
         enforce(data.exists, "File does not exist.");
         // Hashing both name and file, to avoid having the same 
Hash on empty files
         return 
toHexString(digest!SHA256(data.byChunk(4096*1024))).dup;
     } else static if(is(Type == string)){
         return toHexString(digest!SHA256(data)).dup;
     }
     static assert(false, "Data must be string or file. ");
}
```

```
prova.d(22): Error: static assert  "Data must be string or file. "
prova.d(7):        instantiated from here: produceHash!string
```


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