UFCS and delegates

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Saturday, 15 March 2014 at 09:41:18 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 March 2014 at 09:13:47 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>
>> yours no.
>> Because a delegate stores a context ptr aka this. As well as a 
>> function pointer. What you were doing meant that no content 
>> pointer was being stored. Essentially it was just a function 
>> pointer without the first argument added.
>
> Why isn't the first argument, removed in the rewrite, used as 
> the context?
>
> In cases where the type of the first argument was not suitable, 
> the compiler could issue an error message.

Because it must be explicit in nature when its created. You can 
have many delegates to the "same" method on a class/struct but 
they are different if the instances are not the same.