C++ guys hate static_if?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:50:26PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/8/2013 5:19 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> >On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 00:48:59 UTC, DypthroposTheImposter wrote:
> >>      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.
> 
> Many of the criticisms in the paper are addressed by our positive
> experience with static if in D.

I didn't read the paper, but I have to say that static if in D has been
extremely, extremely useful in my code. Now that I've become acquianted
with it, I can't live without it. It's pretty much a necessity when
writing heavily-templated code. But given C++'s broken template design,
I can see why its value may not have been appreciated by some people.

D may still have its warts, but in terms of being a "better C++", I
think it has done a superb job, especially in the area of templates and
compile-time mechanisms. Static if + CTFE + sane template syntax =
readable template code = total win for D over C++.


T

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