Cyclic depency with class static ctor

[Kristian]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:48:55 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> BCS wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes. It isn't possible for the language to really determine the  
>>> dependencies, so it plays it safe and tries to get all the static  
>>> ctors run before the module(s) static ctors that import them. With  
>>> cyclic imports and static ctors in those cycles, this is not possible.
>>  If the rules were changed so that static this functions may only  
>> depend on modules imported before them, then a lot of cases could be  
>> made to work.
>
> I'd rather have fewer order dependencies, not more <g>.

Well, generally in programming things must be done in a specific order...  
;)

What if some other syntax would be used to define the order of static  
ctors?
For example:

     import a, b, c;

     after a: before c: static this();