Cannot implicitly convert delegate to function

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In article <e2qlrk$1uh5$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
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>"Lionello Lunesu" <lio at lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message 
>news:e2qig4$1ovk$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> Hi,
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>> Shouldn't a (pointer to a) function be convertible to a delegate? Seems to 
>> me it's like casting an int to a long; the latter has "more info" and can 
>> be converted back into the former without the loss of data. The same holds 
>> for function/delegate: a function could be converted to a delegate for 
>> "null"; by forgetting the "this" (null), we get the function pointer back.
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>Without the context pointer, a delegate cannot function properly.  So 
>casting from delegate to function isn't really possible.
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>The other way around.. I don't think so either.  Something tells me the 
>mechanism for a delegate call would screw up if the context pointer were 
>null, or if the function weren't designed to be a delegate. 
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It would take some ASM hacking but It might be possible to place the fn ptr in
the context pointer and have the delegate's function rearrange the stack and
then call (with tail recursion) the function.