On Dec 16, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 12/16/2011 3:18 PM, maarten van damme wrote: >> how did other languages solve this issue? I can't imagine D beeing the only >> language with static constructors, do they have that problem too? > > In C++, the order that static constructors run is implementation defined. No > guarantees at all. The programmer has no reasonable way to control the order > in which they are done. > > (Of course, C++ doesn't even have modules, so the notion of a module > constructor is tenuous at best.)
This aspect of C++ drives me absolutely crazy. Though I imagine it bothers a lot of people given all the coverage static initialization has gotten in C++ literature.
