Fixing cyclic import static construction problems

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 21:43:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Thursday, November 29, 2012 21:08:58 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> BTW, how does Java handle this? And C# if it has something 
>> similar.
>
> They just let you blow your foot off. All static variables can 
> be directly
> initialized at runtime, so it's easy to use variables before 
> they're actually
> initialized. I don't know how they decide what order to run 
> static
> constructors in, but AFAIK, it never worries about circular 
> dependencies.
> We're only running into this problem beacuse we're trying to 
> provide higher
> safety and better guarantees with regards to when and how 
> variables are
> initialized.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Java have static block to pre initialize stuff before it is used. 
But I'm not sure how they react in case of cyclic dependancies.