Cannot implicitly convert delegate to function

[Lionello Lunesu]

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
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> Stewart Gordon schrieb am 2006-04-27:
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
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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. 
>> But why?  I can't understand why a function that doesn't touch the 
>> context pointer at all can't be trivially be converted to a delegate in 
>> which the context pointer is null.
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> Let's try it:


Great example, Thomas. It works, even if I add some parameters to the 
functions, or when I put the static function outside the class.

It seems trivial to let the compiler allow the implicit conversion.

Thanks,

L.