Signals/Slots only with classes

[Basile B.]

On Saturday, 17 October 2020 at 16:22:39 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm just fiddling around with signals and slots and fell over 
> this nasty bug:
>
> (copied from std.signals)
> "Slots can only be delegates formed from class objects or 
> interfaces to class objects. If a delegate to something else is 
> passed to connect(), such as a struct member function, a nested 
> function, a COM interface or a closure, undefined behavior will 
> result."
>
> Is there any chance, that this bug is fixed in the near future

No. std.signals is old, old-fashioned but is still there because 
there's no proposals to replace it and the standards for std are 
high.

std.signals is there not because it's good but rather for 
historiacal reasons.

> ore is it something we have to live with?

Likely. But you can work on something better and use it.