Seciont 10.1 compile time constants and evaluation order not specified #228
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This issue was originally filed by zundel@google.com
There is no mention in the spec of evaluating final variables in a particular order, so test cases have been added to use final variables in an expression before they are declared. This is turning out to be difficult to implement, so I was looking for a way out in the spec, but didn't find one - drat.
If that is the correct interpretation, the ability to use variables before they are referenced opens up the possibility of circular dependencies between expressions that isn't possible in many other languages. I was thinking that the spec might want to mention that circular definitions in CTConstant expressions are illegal. We certainly want those expressions to be defined explicitly (a compile time error).