static this sucks, we should deprecate it

[Robert Fraser]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> The thing is, I've been using Java for more than 7 years now and I 
>> never got any error because of intialization dependency. It would be 
>> nice to turn that check off in D and see the results. Maybe no one 
>> will complain about it.
> 
> Eliminating implementation-defined behavior like that makes a language 
> more reliable and portable. Java's failure to address this is a hole in 
> their system.

It's not implementation-defined. When a class is loaded (the times at 
which it is are specified), static members are initialized and static 
blocks run in the order that they appear in the source file.