On 8 July 2015 at 10:46, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

On Saturday, 4 July 2015 at 10:47:17 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

both cases to throw a compilation error (using static assert). However

I'd like the core druntime team to be on board with this.

It makes sense to disallow them, but I wonder why they are allowed in C++.

They *aren't* allowed in C++.

GCC will give you a compiler warning if you attempt it, and stdc++ should invoke a cxx_assert on it's use.

Iain