QtD 0.1 is out!
Christopher Wright
dhasenan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 05:39:11 PST 2009
Lutger wrote:
> grauzone wrote:
>
>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
>>>
>>>> We faced a bug that module static constructors don't work with cyclic
>>>> imports. Currently it's fixed with a dirty hack which is not really
>>>> acceptable. Is there any chance for this to be fixed?
>>> IMO it is the cyclic import that is the bug ;)
>> Maybe all cyclic dependency bugs are on purpose, to teach people not to
>> use this evil D feature? Yeah, that must it be. I can't explain why else
>> these bugs/issues aren't fixed, and why people only reply with
>> incredibly useful statements like "but you shouldn't use this feature
>> anyway!".
>>
>> Broken features should be either fixed or removed. This half-assedness
>> about it isn't really going to help D.
>
> Well it's about cyclic dependency of initialization via module constructors
> only right? Cyclic imports in general aren't (supposed to be) broken, nor
> are module constructors.
Additionally, the compiler has sufficient information to complain about
the problem at compile time, but it doesn't. That is a bug.
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