On Thursday, November 29, 2012 21:08:58 Jacob Carlborg wrote: > BTW, how does Java handle this? And C# if it has something similar.
They just let you blow your foot off. All static variables can be directly initialized at runtime, so it's easy to use variables before they're actually initialized. I don't know how they decide what order to run static constructors in, but AFAIK, it never worries about circular dependencies. We're only running into this problem beacuse we're trying to provide higher safety and better guarantees with regards to when and how variables are initialized. - Jonathan M Davis
