Re: static this sucks, we should deprecate it

[Walter Bright]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
The thing is, I've been using Java for more than 7 years now and I never 
got any error because of intialization dependency. It would be nice to 
turn that check off in D and see the results. Maybe no one will complain 
about it.

Eliminating implementation-defined behavior like that makes a language 
more reliable and portable. Java's failure to address this is a hole in 
their system.