std.signals non-object delegates

[Jacob Shtokolov]

On Tuesday, 12 June 2018 at 14:33:57 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 6/12/18 9:04 AM, Jacob Shtokolov wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I'll respond to say that I don't know a lot of people who use 
> signals and slots. It's a very old part of Phobos, and I think 
> a lot of people here aren't familiar with it.
>
>> [...]
>
> I've never heard of this functionality. Looking it up, it's not 
> used anywhere in druntime, only from phobos, and only from this 
> std.signals implementation (literally a search through all code 
> finds the function rt_attachDisposeEvent in 2 places -- the 
> definition, and the one usage in std.signals).
>
> Looking at the implementation, it depends on having an Object 
> with a Monitor, as the event is stored in the monitor. So you 
> couldn't attach it to any specific piece of memory, it HAS to 
> be an Object.
>
> But like I said, it's not used pretty much anywhere. So I think 
> nobody would miss it if you ripped it out and made it better :)
>
> feel free to open a bug report and/or PR and get some more 
> discussion going.
>
> -Steve

Thank you Steve!

Then I'll try to fire a bug report and propose my own solution to 
this problem.
Probably there is no need to track down the non-object dispose 
events.

Good to hear that not so many people are affected by this 😏