the acyclic module graph

[Jochen Theodorou]

Hi all,

in the sadly few hours of my spare time these days I am trying to 
understand jigsaw better and I came across the condition that the module 
graph should be acyclic... which made me wonder...


So Let us assume there is a module groovy.runtime and a module app0, 
which is written in Groovy. groovy.runtime exports a equally named 
package for general use. Since app0 is written in Groovy there is the 
high possibility that I will have to invoke arbitrary methods from app0 
from inside groovy.runtime. Meaning app0 needs to give a read edge to 
groovy.runtime for app0. So app0 depends on groovy.runtime and 
groovy.runtime depends on app0... is that a cricular dependency that is 
forbidden... or was it only for compile time?

bye Jochen