static parameters

["Luís]

On Sunday, 5 May 2013 at 18:19:30 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> Weren't those replaced by template arguments?

You tell me. I saw them discussed here 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRfTk44nuWE
Being a syntactic sugar convenience, I thought that if they were 
missing then the most likely reason would be that there were 
other priorities, but as other reasons were possible (e.g. the 
community rejected them) I decided to ask :-)