On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:11 PM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com>wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic: > > > No idea, but I've wondered this myself too. After all "imports" are a >> static feature and all are known at compile-time. >> > > rdmd is used often in a situation where it knows all the modules of a > program. So it must be able to detect those cycles. It seems an enhancement > request for rdmd. Maybe a similar enhancement is possible for dmd, because > there are plans to make the D compiler able to find all the modules it > needs to compile a program. > > Bye, > bearophile > why do the email threads keep splitting up again? Anyways, on the original thread 'can we detect at compile time module ctor/dtor cycles ?', Steven Schveighoffer raised the concern that di files may have certain private imports not written in the di file, to which I answered we can at least attempt cycle detection at compile time (which won't catch all cases) followed by cycle detection at runtime.
