Fixing cyclic import static construction problems

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/29/12 12:25 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 22:19:54 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 11/28/12 9:34 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> For discussion:
>> [snip]
>>
>> I'd say we better finish const, immutable, and shared first.
>
> Both problems need to be addressed, and this one is probably easier. It also
> has a huge impact on std.benchmark, so I would have thought that you'd be more
> in favor of it.

My perception is that we need to tackle the major issues at this point: 
process and qualifiers (including shared).

> However, we do have a tendancy to bring up problems like this, discuss them
> for a while, and then let them be more or less forgotten for a while. It keeps
> happening with stuff like const ref / auto ref, shared, const and Object, const
> postblit constructors, @trusted blocks, etc. And we need to actually get them
> sorted out.

Enhancement requests are the right place for those. Now that we have 
forum.dlang.org we can link to discussions, too.


Andrei