Re: Q: Dependent Initialization

>>>>> "Berin" == Berin Loritsch <[email protected]> writes:

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

This particular kind of self destructive behavior can be easily
prevented if dependencies are explicit. In fact, Phoenix checks the deps
graph for loops. A similar thing could be done in Fortress, but it will
have to be an in-progress check as opposed to pre-requisite check.