On Thu, 31 May 2012 11:36:47 +0200, Sandeep Datta
<datta.sand...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I was going through some sample code online and came across the
following code fragment...
listenHttp(settings, &handleRequest); //Where handleRequest is a
function
My question to you is (as the title says) is the address-of operator (&)
really needed here? Wouldn't it be better to consider handleRequest to
be a reference to the actual function? I think this will make the system
consistent with the way variables work in D. IMO this will bring
functions/delegates closer to being first class objects in D.
What do you think?
It might be because of historical reasons.
A long time ago, D allowed calling functions without (), so what if
handleRequest returns a function?
Should the passed reference be handleRequest or handleRequest()?
This issue is still valid for properties as they can be called without ().
