Re: Fixing spurious "statement is not reachable" in template code

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

On 25/10/2015 4:25 AM, tsbockman wrote:

///////////////////////////////
module main;

import std.stdio;

void reachIf(bool x)()
{
     if(!x)
         return;
     writeln("reached"); // Warning: statement is not reachable
}

void main(string[] args) {
     reachIf!true();  // prints "reached"
     reachIf!false(); // triggers warning
}
///////////////////////////////

Thoughts?

Easy to fix:

void reachIf(bool x)()
{
     static if(!x)
         return;
     else
         writeln("reached");
}

The warning is correct, and incredibly annoying.