On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 18:14:26 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
Me, because that's what it means to evaluate the condition at compile time and only compiling in the appropriate branch. This is additional and special behaviour and it destroys the orthogonality of 'static if' and 'return'. (I don't feel strongly about the change, but the idea that the new behavior should be expected anyway is flawed.)
Alright, I have to range myself with most here. While I'm all for not warning about unreachable code, I'm opposed to not compiling the rest of the code. This create non orthogonality between static if and control flow analysis, the kind that clearly do not pay for itself.
