Bug 6146 – A way to mark a static construct as having no dependencies

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.

I'd love to have something like this, but Walter is completely against it, so it's never going to happen.