Stroustrup's slides about c++11 and c++14

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On Sunday, 14 September 2014 at 20:21:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/14/2014 12:35 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> I do acknowledge this is a problem, but I am yet to run into 
>> it in actual D
>> code.  Most of my static ifs are either inside templates, 
>> inside functions, or
>> are being used to bypass version's limitations.
>
> A similar problem once existed in the druntime, which caused a 
> bunch of head-scratching nastiness. The problem was the person 
> who wrote it was trying to make an import context-dependent, 
> i.e. behave differently depending on how it was imported.
>
> I replaced the offending logic with straightforward code, but 
> it does expose this dependency problem with static if.
>
> The compiler should detect these sorts of things and reject 
> them.

If that is really a concern, please consider commenting on 
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP31