Our template emission strategy is broken

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/11/2015 9:19 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> Of course, many of the problems could have probably been avoided if there was an
> iron-clad rule that the module dependency graph must remain acyclic from the
> beginning of development (at least at the level of units of compilation).

In hindsight, I would have made D enforce that (Go does).

> But how could they have known how bad it would get otherwise?

I hadn't anticipated that code would inevitably be constructed so that every 
module imports every other module.