Inconsistent behaviour when refreshing circular referenced templates

[andrewwakeling]

Create template called circular.less as below:

@import "circular.less";

Declare it in the head element via a link element.

When loading the page for the first time, it only loads circular.less once.

In the developer console, type:

less.refresh()

Verify that it loads circular.less 3 times.

If the circular reference occurs across 2 files, it will load the 2 files twice.
If the circular reference occurs across 3 files, it will load the 3 files once then the first 2 again.

I'm not sure what the expected behaviour is, but this seems a little fishy.

This is vaguely related to #1484.

[lukeapage]

I think its because of the async loading - I'd like to make a change to process files in the same order regardless of the order they get loaded in from, which should fix this.

However I assume this isn't causing you big issues? it is a low bug?

[andrewwakeling]

Yeah, this isn't causing me any issues at the moment. It was just an observation I made when doing some testing.