static this sucks, we should deprecate it

Frank Benoit keinfarbton at googlemail.com
Thu May 28 05:14:45 PDT 2009


Unknown W. Brackets schrieb:
> 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]
> 

In Java the
static { /* static ctor code */ }
does not have the circular dependency problem. why is that?



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