On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 18:16:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 07/07/2016 10:25 PM, Andrew Godfrey wrote:
D's "static if" - which is a killer feature if I ignore the
keyword -
gives me a similar feeling (though it's much less egregious
than
"return" in monads). "static" is a terribly non-descriptive
name because
there are so many senses in which a thing could be "dynamic".
You may well be literally the only person on Earth who dislikes
the use of "static" in "static if". -- Andrei
Aha! But I don't! It feels intuitive, possibly the best use of
"static". But that is immaterial, what matters is the sum of all
meanings of "static" in this language. The "single instance per
class" meaning of "static" is just bonkers. I've had that meaning
burned into my brain for a couple of decades, from C++. But I
don't have to like it!
I could stomach it, though, if that was the only use of the
keyword. (Or if the other meanings couldn't be used in the same
contexts).
