gistfile1.txt

var logger;

static {
  logger = new Logger();
  console.log('hi');
}

export function a() {
  logger.log("hey");

}

@groundwater

cc @dominiccooney @domenic @esprehn This is the thing we talked about today for html5 modules.

The idea here is similar to static blocks in Java or C# (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k9x6w0hc.aspx). The idea is that all of the code inside the static {} block would be guaranteed to be executed before any code within the module was executed. As an example:

import { a } from 'a';
console.log('main1');
a();
console.log('main2');

The static block would likely not execute before the main1 log because even though a has been imported, no function inside of it has been used. But it would be guaranteed that inside a() logger is not null because the constructor would at least run before that point.