Cyclic Dependencies

[torhu]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> When I first started learning D I decided that a good way to learn it 
> would be by porting a popular java api (mind, I didn't say intelligent), 
> which came complete with a few cyclic dependencies. At the moment, I'm 
> using GDC, and it refuses to swallow cyclic dependencies. The compiler 
> doesn't complain, but it throws a runtime exception. I can break the 
> dependency loops and GDC will work just fine, but what I'm wondering is 
> whether it is standard that the dependency hierarchy be acyclic, or is 
> this some quirk of GDC, or is it more likely that there is something 
> weird going on in my java-to-D translation.
> 

You can't use module constructors (static this) in modules that import 
each other.