static this sucks, we should deprecate it

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Thu May 28 01:50:40 PDT 2009


Probably a silly idea, but what about (or similar):

static this: mod.name, mod.name2, mod.name3
{
}

For a dependency list.  I may be wrong, but afaik the main problems stem 
from either wrong order or co-dependence (which needs to be solved by 
the programmer.)

At least with this, you could ask the compiler for an order, 
potentially.  If the other modules had no static this, it could ignore 
it, allowing future proofing.

But, maybe that's an ugly hack.

-[Unknown]


davidl wrote:
> Why on earth we still let the tumor grow?
> I would love to specify the order by myself not by the arbitrary order
> generated by the compiler.
> 



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