Uncallable delegates

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Sat May 16 06:15:31 UTC 2026


On 5/16/26 06:35, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/15/2026 7:45 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> To agree with Walter here, if there are problems with pure please 
>> split them off into their own ticket.
> 
> Already done: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/23125
> ...

I approve, but it's indeed an unrelated problem.

>> Please focus on const storage class & type qualifier in this proposal.
> 
> Since `pure` is part of the test case showing the problem, 23125 may be 
> the actual cause of the problem.
> ...

No. It is not.

>  > This is one of the main reasons (but not the only one) for the term 
> "attribute soup" that is a bane of many D developer.
> 
> I agree, but when one simplifies the problem, 9/10 times it is the 
> result of misunderstanding the implicit `this` parameter.
> 
> I recommend fixing 23125 first, and then seeing if the other problem is 
> cleared up.

It won't be.


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