http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6146
Summary: A way to mark a static construct as having no
dependencies
Product: D
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: DMD
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
--- Comment #0 from Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> 2011-06-11 00:19:12
PDT ---
It would really help in dealing with circular dependencies between modules if
it were possible to mark a static constructor as not having any dependencies.
It's often the case, and it's a royal pain to get rid of a circular dependency
once the compiler (or is it druntime?) decides that you have one. If you have a
true circular dependency, then you need to redesign things, but if you don't,
then the current status of things is _very_ annoying.
It seems to me that it could be as simple as adding a new attribute (e.g.
@nodeps) which only applied to static constructors and then that static
constructor is then ignored in the tests for circular dependencies. I don't
know how much work it would be to effect such a change, but it at least seems
like it would be a fairly small change, and it would have major benefits. It's
incredibly easy to get a circular dependency once you start using many static
constructors, and the vast majority of the time there isn't really a
dependency. So, having a means to indicate that a static constructor has no
external dependencies would help a lot.
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