C++ guys hate static_if?

[Brad Anderson]

On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 00:48:59 UTC, DypthroposTheImposter 
wrote:
>        See the static_if paper here:
>
> http://isocpp.org/forums
>
> Under the post "constraints and static if" there is a link to a
> document about
> static_if
>
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDIyMDc3NjUwMTczOTM0Mjk3NjABMDI2MzM3MjkxNDM4NDQ5MzE4NDcBLWVsS1Y4dFhtdDhKATUBaXNvY3BwLm9yZwF2Mg
>
>       Are they full of it? Has it caused the problems they 
> mention
> in
> D?

Well, the two guys with an alternative proposal (concepts-lite) 
seem to hate static if (along with a third guy).

There seems to be a lot of strawman arguments in this paper.