Lazy and delegates - out-of-scopeness - what happens?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-14 20:42, Cecil ward wrote:
> If I pass lazy expressions or delegates to as arguments to functions, what happens with variables mentioned in the
> lazy expression or in the delegate body if those variables are on the stack or otherwise out of scope, or are objects
> that may be freed? Does the compiler partially protect the programmer from mistakes here?
>
> If anyone can comment on how these features are implemented in generated code wrt stack-allocated objects that
> are _in_ lexical scope in a delegate evaluation context, then I'd be interested to hear about this.

They all local variables (or similar) that a delegate references will be 
allocated on the heap, this is also known as a closure: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_%28computer_science%29

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/Jacob Carlborg