C++ guys hate static_if?

[SomeDude]

On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 14:09:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/8/13 7:48 PM, 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?
>
> Wow. That's quite out of character for Bjarne. I think it's 
> quite a poor piece.
>
> Andrei

Indeed, from the start, it doesn't seem to give a fair assessment 
of the value of the feature.
As for rejecting your proposal, don't take it too personnally. In 
the contrary, the inclusion of static if would have been the 
single reason for C++ users not to migrate en masse to D. Think 
that there won't be a good solution for C++ before another 20 
years. By the time it is proposed, this is a good opportunity for 
D to mature and conquer hearts.