Review of Andrei's std.benchmark

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2012-09-22, 15:04, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 9/22/12 8:28 AM, "Øivind" wrote:
>> Is there a way to solve the dependency issue without forbidding static
>> constructors in modules with cyclic dependencies?
>
> I think an idea just occurred to me. The rules for static ctors and  
> dtors were invented before "import" was allowed inside a scope. We could  
> have taken advantage of that.
>
> Say we restrict symbol visibility inside static cdtors to ONLY symbols  
> within the current module. If some static cdtor needs a symbol from a  
> different module, it must import it explicitly (even if the current  
> module already imports it).
>
> In this setup it should be possible to compute, in a fine-grained  
> manner, the dependencies of static cdtors.
>
> Unfortunately that would be a breaking change.

That *is* neat. I guess putting it on the deprecation path could work.
This is a change we'd really, *really* like to see.

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Simen