Feedback Thread: DIP 1033--Implicit Conversion of Expressions to Delegates--Community Review Round 1

[Walter Bright]

On 4/22/2020 5:14 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Function Pointers
>> Implicit conversion of expressions to function lambdas is not done. There 
>> doesn't seem much point to it, as there will be no arguments to the function 
>> lambda, meaning the expression can only consist of globals.
> 
> Why does it have to consist only of globals?
> 
> int delegate() = 3;
> 
> doesn't use any globals. Why shouldn't this work?
> 
> int function() = 3;

Because it seems kinda pointless to support function pointers only with constants.

While it is not impossible to support function pointers with this, I can't think 
of a compelling use case.


> Also typo here:
> 
>> Currently, arguments to lazy paraeters 
> 
> parameters

Sorry. I meant "paræters"