Review of Andrei's std.benchmark

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/22/12 8:28 AM, "Øivind" wrote:
> Is there a way to solve the dependency issue without forbidding static
> constructors in modules with cyclic dependencies?

I think an idea just occurred to me. The rules for static ctors and 
dtors were invented before "import" was allowed inside a scope. We could 
have taken advantage of that.

Say we restrict symbol visibility inside static cdtors to ONLY symbols 
within the current module. If some static cdtor needs a symbol from a 
different module, it must import it explicitly (even if the current 
module already imports it).

In this setup it should be possible to compute, in a fine-grained 
manner, the dependencies of static cdtors.

Unfortunately that would be a breaking change.


Andrei