static this sucks, we should deprecate it

[Walter Bright]

Denis Koroskin wrote:
> Which is even worse. Walter stated that "silently generating bad
> code" (i.e. code that doesn't work) is a top priority bug.

It fails immediately on trying to run it, it is not silently failing.

Silently failing is having a dependency on the order of initialization, 
but not detecting it, and initializing things in the wrong order.