any tool to at least partially convert C++ to D (htod for source

[grauzone]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> I hate the restriction on modules with static constructors and cyclic 
> dependencies. IMO it's the most patronizing 'feature' D has. A year or 
> so ago I ran into this issue during my first (and last) big project in 
> D. Just last week I started working on it again and replaced everything 
> that got initialized in a static constructor with stuff akin to
> 
> static Foobar foobar(){
>   static Foobar _foobar;
>   static bool inited = false;
>   if(!inited){
>     _foobar = new Foobar();
>     _foobar.init();
>     inited = true;
>   }
>   return _foobar;
> }

You could move the static ctor into another module outside of the cycle 
(e.g. the module where your main() function is). Then you get the same 
effects as "platform" dependent initialization.

It would be very practical if D has a "lose" version of the static ctor, 
that works even with cyclic dependencies. One could compare the module 
names or so to make the ordering deterministic across all linkers/platforms.

PS: I wonder why it's not considered a problem to execute unittests in 
random order? It's confusing if unittests fail "out of order", and the 
high level test fails first, even if the actual error is in some other 
low level module with its own unittests.