guard clause style static if

[kdevel via Digitalmars-d-learn]

It appears not to be possible to use static if in "guard clause 
style" as in

   void bar (T ...) (T args)
   {
      static if (args.length == 0)
         return;
      writeln (args [0]);
      return bar (args [1 .. $]);
   }

Is this intended?