cor3ntin added a comment.

In D144285#4176850 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D144285#4176850>, @rupprecht wrote:

> In D144285#4163004 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D144285#4163004>, @cor3ntin 
> wrote:
>
>> If however we find this change to disruptive, we should inform WG21.
>
> Thanks for the explanation, I think I understand the issue now. I got totally 
> thrown off by the title -- it's not about literally writing 
> `static_assert(false)`, it's about deferring `static_assert` evaluation to 
> template instantiations. Being able to write `static_assert(false)` (or any 
> falsy constant expression) is just the common use case for this.
>
> So possibly the most trivial example of something that used to break, but now 
> builds:
>
>   template <typename>
>   void Fail() {
>       static_assert(false, "my assertion failed");
>   }
>
> ... but will still fail as soon as you invoke `Fail<any_type>()` somewhere.
>
> It doesn't look like there's a lot of impact from this, and the breakages are 
> corner cases like this. It might be worth mentioning this one case to WG21 
> but I'm not sure what I would change about the wording.

Will do !



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rupprecht wrote:
> Is it possible to make this link point to 
> https://cplusplus.github.io/CWG/issues/2518.html? This link is inaccessible 
> to anyone not on ISO.
It will get updated whenever a new core issue list gets published, which will 
hopefully be soon-ish.
This file is generated automatically so changing the link might actually not be 
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