Order of static constructors/initializers in C#

Question

While working on a C# app I just noticed that in several places static initializers have dependencies on each other like this:

static private List         


        

Answer 1

Personally I would get rid of the static initializers since it isn't clear and add a static constructor to initialize these variables.

static private List a;
static private List b;

static SomeClass()
{
    a = new List() { 0 };
    b = new List() { a[0] };
}

Then you don't have to guess what is going on and you're being clear in your intentions.