Functor alias this
Simen Kjærås
simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 06:33:38 UTC 2018
On Wednesday, 6 June 2018 at 06:25:49 UTC, DaggetJones wrote:
> Hi, I'm wondering how I should approach supplying
> functions/delegates around in D. I have option of using classes
> where the function exists inside the class and to provide
> different functionality different classes are created.
> Alternatively I could just pass the function directly around
> without all the weight of the class.
>
> This led me to wonder if there is a way to combine the two
> methods?
>
>
> With D's alias this would it be possible to have the user code
> treat the function as a delegate but define the functions
> actually in a class without any restrictions?
>
>
> import std.stdio;
>
> alias MyFunction = int delegate();
>
> class MyFunctor
> {
> alias func this;
> int MyData = 5;
> int func() { return MyData; }
> }
>
>
>
> void bar(MyFunction foo) { writeln(foo()); }
>
> void main()
> {
>
> MyFunctor f = new MyFunctor();
>
> bar(&f.func);
> // but not
> // bar(f); or bar(&f);
>
> }
>
>
> But I would like to simply pass the class as if it were the
> member func, which is what the alias this is suppose to provide.
>
> It seems D ignores the alias this in this case?
You'll need to provide a function that returns func. The way it's
currently written, the alias this would basically translate to
bar(f.func()):
class MyFunctor
{
alias func2 this;
int MyData = 5;
int func() { return MyData; }
auto func2() { return &func; }
}
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Simen
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