Omar Shrit

@MarkFischinger the other implementation that you added is for bandicoot library. It is a linear algebra library that we are developing (it has the same API as armadillo) to provide...

@MarkFischinger we can not use `if constexpr` because we do not support yet C++17

@MarkFischinger this is still failing can you be sure that this is compiling on your machine ?

@MarkFischinger can you checkout to the master and pull out the latest version, then you go back to this branch and merge it with the master. It will show you...

not ready yet, just a prototype

@conradsnicta we are scheduled to move to C++17 this summer, probably in June of July, at that time, we can take care of this as well. (Specifically with the end...

This is done, waiting on the PR #3687 to be merged

@rcurtin maybe it is the time for us to jump to C++17 to make this compile on the CI, because it is passing with no issue on my end 1....

As discussed internally, I will get back to this after we move to C++17

This is not causing an issue when compiling on my machine with armadillo 9.800.3, when using `static` or `static const` Therefore I suppose that the issue is the compiler version...