I agree with the parent - global initialisation order is a once-bitten-never-again, and the reality is that working in most codebases doesn't require understand

I agree with the parent - global initialisation order is a once-bitten-never-again, and the reality is that working in most codebases doesn't require understanding all of these rules - knowing the quirks is usually only required by one or two people and the rest can work with what they've got.