Static constructors guaranteed to run?

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On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 22:00:54 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> Are static constructors guaranteed to run if the module is 
> imported?

AFAIK, yes.

> Also are static constructors in templated types guaranteed to 
> run for every instantiation? Even if the instantiation is never 
> actually used outside of compile time code, like in an alias or 
> in a UDA?

Definitely not. Things inside a template don't even exist if that 
template is never instantiated.