static if enhancement

[Claude via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 June 2016 at 11:27:01 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> We are talking about early returns (checking for something and
> returning as soon as possible) which are a well-known and 
> efficient
> way to reduce indentation levels and increase modularity. You 
> can't
> come and say "What? You want it to work? Man, you should have 
> thought
> your code better!": the very reason this subject is discussed 
> is to
> allow people to deal with indentation levels!

I didn't want to sound like that. But my post was unclear. 
Though, in the example, it looks nice, and I understand one would 
want such a feature. I think it could be abused in some other 
cases and make the code less readable.

I had in mind some cross-platform libraries written in C with #if 
#elif and #endif all other the place (used with compiler 
switches). And I reckon the current "static if" is a good tool 
that fits well with the rest of the language to properly mark 
different sections of code, and have different implementations. 
The fact it gives another indentation level could be seen as an 
opportunity to better modularize code (it's what I meant).

So I find that special case (having code after a "static if() 
{return;}" treated like in the "else" block) a bit unintuitive, 
and could be prone to bad practice and confusion.