converting expression to delegate works only for variadic array?

Gopan gggopan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 14:08:06 UTC 2018


Hi,
I created a test application (test.d) to learn delegates.

import core.stdc.stdio;

void Multi (int delegate()[] args ...)
{
     foreach (exp; args)
	printf ("%d, ", exp() );
     printf ("\n");
}

void Single (int delegate() exp)
{
     printf ("%d\n", exp());
}

void main()
{
	int x = 5;
	Multi( {return 1;}, {return 2+x;} ); // outputs 1, 7 as expected.
	Multi( 1, 2+x); // same as above.  produces same output.
	Multi( 3+x ); //produces output 8.
	Single( { return 3+x; } ); //produces output 8
	Single( 3+x ); // COMPILATION ERROR pasted towards bottom.
         // Good. But why does Multi(2+x) not have this issue?
	
	int delegate() exp = { return 4+x; };
	printf("%d\n", exp() );
}
	
test.d(22): Error: function test.Single(int delegate() exp) is 
not callable using argument types (int)
test.d(22):        cannot pass argument 3 + x of type int to 
parameter int delegate() exp
make: *** [test.obj] Error 1

I am happy with the statement Single(3+x) producing this 
compilation error.

But why Multi(3+x) doesn't have this issue?  For that, it is 
allowed as per 'Section 19.16.3.4 Lazy Variadic Functions' of the 
article https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#closures.

What is the rationale behind not allowing it for the non-array 
signature?

Regards,
Gopan


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