Re: Why is length being tested on an int?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 02:38:43 UTC, Shriramana Sharma 
wrote:
        if (is(typeof(arg) == string) && arg.length > 1)
I am not sure why, given short circuit evaluation, it is 
testing the length of the int argument?

That's a runtime check and therefore the code must run to be 
short circuited at all... which means it must compile the whole 
thing first.

Break the is() part into a separate static if, then put the 
runtime length check inside that. More like

static if(is(typeof(arg) == string)) {
    if(arg.length > 1)
         // handle
    else
         // string of short length
} else {
     // not a string
}