One of the least fun aspects of

Get

is that it allowed implicit circular references (since they were only resolved at graph construction time). Switching to call-by-name is the tide going out and exposing that lack of hygiene…

e.g., https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/22352

Switching to call-by-name is the tide going out and exposing that lack of hygiene

This broke so many of my YOLOs

I’m doing

graph.py

now, and it’s been a ride

There were two or three files that made me stop and go back to the backends first approach and that was one of them

Thats not too bad, I may have also worked on it before we realized that some functions just had to be moved above the call site