DIP 1011-extern(delegate)--Formal Review

Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 12 03:44:18 PDT 2017


On Friday, 11 August 2017 at 17:57:30 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
Scherkl wrote:
> On Friday, 11 August 2017 at 10:45:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> The first stage of the formal review for DIP 1011 [1], 
>> "extern(delegate)", is now underway.
>
> I see no problem with this DIP.
> And even if the usecase is rare, I think it is worth the new 
> syntax (and thereby increased complexity of the language) to be 
> able to do this in a type-safe way.
>
> So: +1

+1 from me too. I'm not sure that it will stay rare. This is the 
kind of feature that can open up a real new class of usage that 
are not known yet. In short, this feature may bring duck typing 
to another level.


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