See Order or Static Construction.http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/module.html
Circular dependencies are allowed so long as not both of the modules contain static ctors or dtors, else will result in a runtime exception.

The very simplest example of this is:===a.d===module a;import b;class A {** *static this()*{}}
===b.d===module b;import a;class B {** *static this()*{}}===main.d===void main() {}


I don't think this is really a compiler bug per se, but attached is a patch for torus that should resolve the conflict and still satisfy runtime.
Regards

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Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';