Lazy evaluation
Lutger
lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 15:00:24 PDT 2007
BCS wrote:
> Lutger wrote:
>> BCS wrote:
>>
>>> OF wrote:
>>>
>>>> It hints at lazyexp not being valid after the function has ended,
>>>> which makes it quite different from delegates.
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the /exact/ behavior of delegate liters and delegates formed
>>> from nested functions. They are invalid after the function call they
>>> are from returns. This is because the delegate caries a pointer to
>>> the stack frame of the surrounding function.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, but only when you access some variables through this pointer right?
>
> I would assume so but there might be some hidden reads that could cause
> problems.
Could you elaborate? I see nothing in the spec that says it's legal or
not. If there are problems with this, I think that should be clearly
stated.
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