Uncallable delegates
Timon Gehr
timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Fri May 15 02:36:12 UTC 2026
On 5/15/26 04:23, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/14/2026 2:55 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> FWIW, I am convinced that Dukc has the right idea about delegate
>> typing, and the proposed change certainly improves things. Though I
>> guess the unsound `pure` factory function interaction will remain
>> intact with the DIP as written. (Which is partially my bad, I did not
>> consider the potential convertibility from mutable to `immutable` when
>> deriving the soundness condition in the idea thread.)
>
> I am skeptical that this proposed behavior does not match how overrides
> in classes work.
Why would the callability check match the overriding behavior?
The callability check should match the callability check.
```d
class C{
void foo(){}
}
void main(){
const c = new C;
c.foo(); // error
}
```
Specifically which proposed behavior are you not able to explain in
terms of classes?
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