On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 at 10:19:20 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 at 04:44:23 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
On 17/04/18 13:59, Simen Kjærås wrote:
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Also, extremely dangerous.
Seriously, guys and gals. __traits(compiles) (and its uglier
sibling, is(typeof())) should be used *extremely* sparingly.
[...]
A very good rule of thumb. I've lost of how many times I've had
a bug because of __traits(compiles) being false, but not in the
way I expected it to be!
Let me third that.
Although this would not be as big of a problem if we had a way of
printing out the values for failed template constraints (isn't
this already done for static if now?)