On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 23:09:34 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
nim supports static if (`when`) + CTFE. A simple google search
or searching
would've revealed that.
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:20 PM Mark via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 20:57:16 UTC, Dennis wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC, Mark wrote:
>> Funnily, none of these languages have a "static if"
>> construct, nor do Rust, Swift and Nim. Not one that I could
>> find, anyway.
>
> What qualifies under "static if"? Because Rust, Swift and
> Nim do have conditional compilation.
>
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/first-edition/conditional-compilation.html
>
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/Statements.html
(conditional compilation blocks)
>
https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#statements-and-expressions-when-statement
Fair enough. I should have written "static if + CTFE".
The little information on the official site describes `when` more
like #ifdef in C than an actual static if. I also went over a few
dozens of modules in the standard library and the statement seems
to be rarely used, and when it does it's usually in an #ifdef-ish
context (like platform specific code).
Perhaps Nim's support for conditional compilation is as powerful
as D's is, but you can see why my impression is currently to the
contrary.
