• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Oct 09 2008
• Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Oct 09 2008

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Andrei Alexandrescu:
 Last time I looked it was delegate-based, is that still the case?


It is... But I think there's an important missing point here. If future D wants
to support functional-style coding, it has to digest delegates/functions
efficiently, because they are everywhere in that style of coding. I can't think
of D as a functional language if I can't use functions efficiently. So instead
of pulling functions/delegates out my code, can D compiler grow better
inlining/management of them, etc? :-)

Bye,
bearophile

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:

bearophile wrote:
 Andrei Alexandrescu:
 Last time I looked it was delegate-based, is that still the case?


 It is... But I think there's an important missing point here. If
 future D wants to support functional-style coding, it has to digest
 delegates/functions efficiently, because they are everywhere in that
 style of coding. I can't think of D as a functional language if I
 can't use functions efficiently. So instead of pulling
 functions/delegates out my code, can D compiler grow better
 inlining/management of them, etc? :-)


I was thinking of delegates vs. aliases.

Andrei