Why don't lazy parameters bind to delegates? Was: Feature to get or add value to an associative array.

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 4/20/18 7:21 PM, Giles Bathgate wrote:
> On Friday, 20 April 2018 at 23:13:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Yes. That should work. e.g. this
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> void foo(lazy string l)
>> {
>> }
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>     foo({writeln("foo"); return "str";}());
>> }
>>
>> compiles and runs just fine without printing anything, whereas you get 
>> a compilation error if you don't have the parens after the closing brace.
> 
> Ok cool. I've updated the PR since basically, I agree with your points 
> about it being confusing to cater for the special case.
> 
> 

Yeah, I didn't mean for the special case to happen -- I thought it just 
worked!

I should have tested my original code... Sorry.

-Steve