C++ guys hate static_if?

[Timon Gehr]

On 03/11/2013 07:55 PM, Jouko Koski wrote:
> "Nick Treleaven" wrote:
>> On 09/03/2013 11:15, Artur Skawina wrote:
>
>> >   - static-if not creating scopes/is/  confusing, but what would be
>> a > better
>> >     alternative?
>>
>> Isn't it only confusing to newbies? It's not hard to learn and recognize.
>
> Maybe. This is just precisely the way how it all begun in C/C++.
>

Actually, in D, static if creates its own scopes for declarations made 
inside the static if condition.