D 2.0 - dalegates to function

[Frits van Bommel]

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> But how can a delegate ever get "thunked" to behave like a function? R 
> delegate(X...) => R function(C,X...), with the C the context ?

Basically, a bit of code is generated at run-time (on the heap) that 
calls the delegate with the correct context pointer. Then that code is 
pointed to by the function pointer.
The context pointer can be put into the code as an immediate value.