On Sunday, 10 March 2013 at 22:49:53 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
On Saturday, 9 March 2013 at 14:09:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/8/13 7:48 PM, DypthroposTheImposter wrote:
See the static_if paper here:
http://isocpp.org/forums
Under the post "constraints and static if" there is a link to
a
document about
static_if
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MDIyMDc3NjUwMTczOTM0Mjk3NjABMDI2MzM3MjkxNDM4NDQ5MzE4NDcBLWVsS1Y4dFhtdDhKATUBaXNvY3BwLm9yZwF2Mg
Are they full of it? Has it caused the problems they mention
in
D?
Wow. That's quite out of character for Bjarne. I think it's
quite a poor piece.
Andrei
Indeed, from the start, it doesn't seem to give a fair
assessment of the value of the feature.
As for rejecting your proposal, don't take it too personnally.
In the contrary, the inclusion of static if would have been the
single reason for C++ users not to migrate en masse to D. Think
that there won't be a good solution for C++ before another 20
years. By the time it is proposed, this is a good opportunity
for D to mature and conquer hearts.
Concepts have some drawbacks, but are also supperior in many way
to static if. This isn't a black and white situation.
