My underlying question is how to compose functions taking functions as arguments, while allowing the caller the flexibility to pass either a function or delegate.

Simply declaring an argument as either a function or delegate seems to prohibit the other. Overloading works. Are there better ways?

An example:

auto callIntFn (int function(int) f, int x) { return f(x); }
auto callIntDel (int delegate(int) f, int x) { return f(x); }
auto callIntFnOrDel (int delegate(int) f, int x) { return f(x); }
auto callIntFnOrDel (int function(int) f, int x) { return f(x); }

void main(string[] args) {
    alias AddN = int delegate(int);
    AddN makeAddN(int n) { return x => x + n; }

    auto addTwo = makeAddN(2);                // Delegate
    int function(int) addThree = x => x + 3;  // Function

    // assert(callIntFn(addTwo, 4) == 6);     // Compile error
    // assert(callIntDel(addThree, 4) == 7);  // Compile error
    assert(callIntDel(addTwo, 4) == 6);
    assert(callIntFn(addThree, 4) == 7);
    assert(callIntFnOrDel(addTwo, 4) == 6);
    assert(callIntFnOrDel(addThree, 4) == 7);
}

---Jon

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