[Issue 12571] Regression (2.063): Can no longer use static introspection on circular references

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12571

--- Comment #4 from Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Kenji Hara from comment #2)
> I don't think the code should work. When declaring scopeName variable,
> referring it in its initializer should cause forward reference error.

Note that C seems to have a greater ability than D w.r.t. this issue. For
example a piece of code I ran into recently:

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int** arr = malloc(sizeof(**arr) * 10);
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This works in C but can't in D. Whether that's a good thing or not, I don't
know.

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