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.
--
Simen
