Hello Walter,
Doing lazy initialization certainly works, but it would require all
static member access to go through a check for initialization, first.
The cost of this check persists for a statically compiled language;
for a JITted language like C# the access can be rewritten to remove
the check.
That and I have some patterns I like using where I use "static this()" to
inject results without any change to the code base. For that to work, they
need to run before things get referenced.
void delegate(string)[string] args; // static this injects into here.
void main(string[] argv)
{
foreach(string s; argv)
args[GetBefor('=',s)](GetAfter('=',s));
}
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