Feature Request: Support delegate literal context skipping

Frits van Bommel fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
Fri Oct 12 04:22:08 PDT 2007


downs wrote:
> In the following situation
> 
> class Foo {
>   int e;
>   void delegate() bar() {
>     return { e++; };
>   }
> }
> 
> the delegate literal will not work. This is because its context is bar,
> and bar has ended. But the literal doesn't *need* anything from bar.
> 
> Because of this, I propose in situations where a delegate literal
> doesn't access the immediate surrounding stack frame, its context be the
> first frame (or class) that it does access.
> So in this example, { e++; } 's .ptr would point at the respective
> instance of Foo, allowing this to work.

IIRC this has been proposed before.
vote++:

Or should I say "return { vote++; }"? ;)



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