Non compile time evaluation for initializers

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:ffquc2$2kjg$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Is there a good reason why the compiler does not allow non-CTFE 
> initializers for non-const variables?
>
> For instance, this does not work:
>
> Logger log = Log.getLogger("test");
>
> but this does:
>
> Logger log;
> static this()
> {
>   log = Log.getLogger("test");
> }

I agree.  Java and C# allow this, and I think it fits in very nicely with 
the existing static constructors.  Since you can have multiple static 
constructors in a module which are just executed in lexical order, a static 
variable being initialized with a non-compile-time initializer could just be 
rewritten as a declaration + 1-line static constructor.  Basically, your 
first snippet would be converted into your second.