inout delegate

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On Thursday, 6 October 2016 at 15:00:56 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 6 October 2016 at 00:29, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4 October 2016 at 11:15, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I'm really struggling with this issue.. multiple times a day.
>> I can't find a reasonable workaround. casting, or trying to 
>> re-synth
>> the delegate type from the function signature doesn't seem to 
>> be
>> reasonable. I lose all the attributes, and storage class on 
>> parameters
>> are an endless nuisance that should never have existed. 
>> Cloning the
>> function signature verbatim, but with inout resolved seems to 
>> be
>> really hard and probably buggy.
>> I really just need this bug fixed... is it a particularly 
>> tricky fix?
>
> Goodnight. I'm really hoping I wake up tomorrow and someone has 
> some
> comment on this issue...
> I'm a post about it every day. I'm completely blocked while this
> regression stands ;)

Why not make a template function that does the necessary 
conversion? Going from the delegate to a void* then back again 
with the appropriate attributes applied by a cast?