The order that types are sealed in JSIL.Initialize is important about jsil

[kg]

Can you provide an example?

MakeSealedTypeGetter should construct a function that, when called, initializes the type. It shouldn't initialize the type itself when called.

[kg]

To clarify:

Sealing of types only occurs in queued initializers, which are created at the end of each generated file. Sealing should never occur after that, so running a static constructor shouldn't cause types to become sealed.

There was a race condition of sorts where .Of(T) could be called on a generic type before it was fully defined. This caused all sorts of problems, and I could see how maybe that would make you think that things were going wrong with type sealing, but really the root problem was .Of(T) being called too early. I've worked around this by ensuring that base types are always deferred if they are generic, so that .Of(T) doesn't actually get called until after type sealing has occurred.

P.S. Fuck, I hate JavaScript.

[robashton]

Hah, okay - well I'll run this over the old version of my code that raised all these issues in the first place and see what creeps up- I've decided that I'm going to go with a solution for the SLJS project which involves re-implementing most of the SL stuff manually, too many issues in trying to bring across ported code from either moonlight or MS stuff itself. (Mainly due to the amount of native code as well as the way things are bound together)

Should make a lot progress now I've decided to write a crap load of javascript, I like writing crap loads of code. Getting to grips with the way JSIL is structured now too, so can probably contribute a bit more - it's a complex beast so it takes some time to know that the changes you're making aren't causing issues :-)

PS: I actually rather like JavaScript, quirky as it is :-)

[kg]

The order-independence branch ( https://github.com/kevingadd/JSIL/tree/order-independence ) makes significant changes to type initialization, sealing, and assembly loading. I think it should address all of your issues here. Let me know if you get a chance to try it out (things may be horribly broken).