Hello,
A question regarding delegates and local variables:
I have the following code, which seems to indicate the delegate
function can access "b", but makes a private copy of it, instead
of using the "real" b.
---
import std.stdio;
import std.algorithm;
void main()
{
int[] a = [1,1,1];
int b = 42;
auto c = map! ( delegate(x) { ++b; return x+b ; } )(a);
writeln("a = ",a);
writeln("b = ",b);
writeln("c = ",c);
}
---
--- The output ---
$ rdmd test.d
a = [1, 1, 1]
b = 42
c = [44, 45, 46]
---
Because the values in "c" are increasing, it means there is some
copy of "b" which is incremented (from inside the delegate
function).
But the "b" in "main" retains its original value of 42.
What's going on?
and is there a way to "fix" it (i.e. have a delegate update a
local variable) ?
I've found few old discussions, mentioning "copy of stack
variables" [1,2] and different kinds of closures [3], but I
wasn't able to figure it out (I'm new to D).
Thanks,
-gordon
[1] Anonymous Delegates(from 2008):
http://forum.dlang.org/post/g36kpk$15rb$1...@digitalmars.com
[2] Local vars in delegates(from 2009):
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hgshuk$1620$1...@digitalmars.com
[3] Static vs Dynamic closures? (from 2008):
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ghu3m3$1e6o$1...@digitalmars.com
