<h3 id="Package_initialization">Package initialization</h3>

<p>
Within a package, package-level variable initialization proceeds stepwise,
with each step selecting the variable earliest in <i>declaration order</i>
which has no dependencies on uninitialized variables.
</p>

<p>
More precisely, a package-level variable is considered <i>ready for
initialization</i> if it is not yet initialized and either has