On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 19:43:39 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Friday, 8 July 2016 at 18:16:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
You may well be literally the only person on Earth who
dislikes the use of "static" in "static if". -- Andrei
You have to admit that static is used in a lot of different
places in D. It doesn't always mean something like compile-time
either. For instance, a static member function is not a compile
time member function. However, I doubt something like this is
going to change, so it doesn't really bother me.
I liked the way that the Sparrow language (from the
presentation you posted a few weeks ago) did it. Instead of
static if, they use if[ct].
I think it is a serious mistake to use the same word for
different concepts.
In the case of 'static', the problem is that it started out
meaning 'as at, or pertaining to, compile time', and then got
additional meanings.
Therefore, suggest we change the keyword 'static', as used for
compile time, to 'ctime'.
