Casting functions to delegates

[Matthias Walter]

On 12/12/2010 06:15 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 12.12.2010 7:25, Matthias Walter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> there was a discussion in 2006 but w/o a result, and I didn't find any
>> bugs about implicitely casting functions to delegates. It seems to be
>> impossible as long as function-pointer calls work differently than
>> delegate calls in the ABI. Will this at some point be fixed?
>>
>> If not, is there a conversion function in phobos (I didn't find one)? I
>> played a bit and found that this one might work:
>>
>> R delegate(A) funcionToDelegate (R, A...) (R function(A) func)
>> {
>>    return (A a){ return func(a); };
>> }
>>
>> Matthias
> There is actually almost forgotten function in std.functional -
> toDelegate, which does it in the most general way, functional objects
> covered.
> Sadly enough it's not listed in docs, because of the auto return.
Ah, thank you very much! That looks like what I was looking for.