Potential patent issues

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 21.01.2011 21:31, schrieb spir:
> On 01/21/2011 09:18 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> You're thinking of closures (which are also "delegates" in D), but D's
>> delegates can also be used to simple point to a member of an object.
>> It's kind of hidden in the definition:
>>
>> "Delegates to non-static nested functions contain two pieces of data:
>> the pointer to the stack frame of the lexically enclosing function
>> (called the frame pointer) and the address of the function.
>> _This is analogous to struct/class non-static member function delegates
>> consisting of a this pointer and the address of the member function._
>> Both forms of delegates are interchangeable, and are actually the same
>> type: [...]"
>
>
> Thank you for the information, Daniel. You are right: I didn't even know
> "delegate" is used in the second sense. Then, what is he difference
> between a delegate in the second sense and a (non-static) "member
> function" (I mean a method)?
> Or is "delegate" the name of the data structure (implementation side)
> and "member function" or "method" the name of what it holds or means
> (semantic side)?
>
> Denis
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A delegate is like a function pointer to a method.
So like a function pointer is not a function a delegate is not a method ;)
See also Steves code example.

Cheers,
- Daniel