delegate as memeber

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 15:22:15 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> struct stuff {
> 	private Exception delegate() exceptionBuilder = delegate 
> Exception() {
> 		return new Exception("foobar");
> 	};
> }
>
> The following piece of code trigger a compiler error : delegate 
> module.stuff.__dgliteral1 function literals cannot be class 
> members
>
> Why is that ? Is it a bug or a feature ?

Delegates contain a context pointer. Your delegate literal has no 
context.

You can't initialize it with the address of a method, either. For 
struct methods, the context pointer is a pointer to the 
structure. You can't have a .init that contains a pointer to an 
instance. You probably want to use a function literal.