Suggestion: "new delegate" - delegates useable outside of the nesting function scope
Burton Radons
burton-radons at smocky.com
Fri Jun 2 17:18:42 PDT 2006
I use delegates a lot but the fact that they can only live until the end
of the nesting function scope means I need to use classes in many cases,
which is a lot more typing (and fluff telling the autodoc that it's not
part of the public API, and other problems) when it could be easily
fixed. The syntax change would be very simple:
dispatcher.add (new delegate void (Event event) { ... });
And the effect would be simple as well: duplicate the calling context's
stack to the extent that the delegate can see it and use the duplicated
pointer as the "this" pointer; otherwise it's a regular nested delegate.
Five minutes work max, very topical changes, explicit allocation, big
benefits. Is good!
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