Wandering OT, starttime execution

[Chad J]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> 
> There are already precedents for this type of coding. Not only the  
> 'unittest' idea but 'scope()' also allows us to physically separate 
> code  that is executed linearly. So the concept is not foreign to D or 
> Walter.
> 

While I'm at it, I'd also like to see the ability to set a variable to 
the result of some function at starttime, like so:

int[] squares = initSquares();

int[] initSquares()
{
     int[] result = new int[20];
     for ( int i = 0; i < 20; i++ )
         result[i] = i * i;
     return result;
}

void main()
{
     char[] testStr;
     for ( int i = 0; i < squares.length; i++ )
         testStr ~= toString(i)~" squared is "~toString( squares[i] ) ~ 
"\n";

     writefln( testStr );
}

This is something I used in C# and enjoyed.  Any particular reason this 
doesn't exist already?  Maybe I am supposed to write my code a different 
way, if so please enlighten me.  My current workaround is to use static 
ctors, but that doesn't seem as readable to me.