Program size, linking matter, and static this()

[Walter Bright]

On 12/16/2011 3:54 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I'll look at what it would take to get rid of the static constructors and make
> the singletons load lazily, but it will require subverting the type system,
> since it's going to have to break both immutable and pure to be loaded lazily.

Sure, but having a way to tell the compiler "assume this constructor does not 
have any dependencies" also subverts the type system.