ModuleImport

[Rob Sayre]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:09 AM, John Barton <johnjbarton at google.com> wrote:

>
>>
> The arguments for and against supporting cyclic dependencies seem to be
> academic. I'm yet to see any evidence of their importance in practice nor
> proof they they are fundamental ... or not.
>

Data point: I once implemented a system like for Firefox. I got asked for
cyclic dependency support 3 weeks after shipping.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384168#c7

That system that Alex Fritze invented and I worked on is not perfect, and
the syntax isn't very pretty. But it's still getting used 7 years later, so
it must have gotten something right.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/JavaScript_code_modules/Using

- Rob
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