On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 17:36:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
https://www.quora.com/What-does-Bjarne-Stroustrup-think-about-different-programming-languages
The C++ standard committee already reviewed static_if
IIRC Andrei and Walter said they were being incredibly unfair.
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]#post-cdgzdesltjefjvnjbspk:40forum.dlang.org
pretty long thread on it if you want to dig through it.
And I'll end my post with an excerpt from the ISOCPP paper, and
IMO the reason C++ is the way it is:
Being a new and realtively simple-to-use new feature, static_if
would un-
doubtedly be used by many who have no need for the relatively
small increme-
natal improvement in performance offered.
