Walter Bright wrote: > It means that [...] the static constructor for this > module may be run before
This is sufficient only for a simple cycle without any branches or a trivial clique like the one shown. Please recall, that in a clique every member is connected to every other member---in this case by an import statement. It is already not sufficient for a simple clique consisting of three modules, because now orderinh would be given for the remaining two modules. And it is ambiguous if both of the modules in the example given are marked with that pragma. In general a topological sorting has to be specified for all strongly connected components of the graph of imports. This cannot be done within the module, because this would bind the module to that special strongly connected component in that special set of modules. Which in turn would destroy reusability of the module for other programming tasks. Therefore: marking with a pragma isn't a fix for the depicted problem. -manfred
