Function names and lambdas

[Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 18:45:26 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 04/06/2017 11:37 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn 
> wrote:
>>[...]
>
> I think it's just a design choice. C implicitly converts the 
> name of the function to a pointer to that function. D requires 
> the explicit & operator:
>
> alias Func = int function(int);
>
> int foo(int i) {
>     return i;
> }
>
> void main() {
>     Func[] funcs = [ &foo ];
> }
>
> Close to what you mentioned, name of the function can be used 
> as an alias template parameter:
>
> void bar(alias func)() {
>     func(42);
> }
>
> int foo(int i) {
>     return i;
> }
>
> void main() {
>     bar!foo();
> }
>
> Ali

Main reason is probably UFCS.