RE: Q: Dependent Initialization

> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Greg
> 
> >>>>> "Berin" == Berin Loritsch <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>     Berin> In Fortress, if any component needs another one during init
>     Berin> time, then the dependent component is initialized 
> on demand.
>     Berin> Otherwise, components are initialized according to 
> the order
>     Berin> in the backing map.  The approach worked well for the ECM,
>     Berin> and it was brought forward to Fortress.
> 
> Berin, I always ment to aks that: what does Fortress do to prevent
> initialization loops? ECM simply went into an infinite loop AFAIR.


Good question.  I have never written anything with a circular dependency.
In general that's a *really* bad practice.  Unfortunately you can't keep
people from shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm not sure if I have infinite loop protection in there or not.