On 04/07/2017 11:19 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 18:45:26 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 04/06/2017 11:37 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I think it's just a design choice. C implicitly converts the name of
>> the function to a pointer to that function. D requires the explicit &
>> operator:
>>
>> alias Func = int function(int);
>>
>> int foo(int i) {
>> return i;
>> }
>>
>> void main() {
>> Func[] funcs = [ &foo ];
>> }
>>
>> Close to what you mentioned, name of the function can be used as an
>> alias template parameter:
>>
>> void bar(alias func)() {
>> func(42);
>> }
>>
>> int foo(int i) {
>> return i;
>> }
>>
>> void main() {
>> bar!foo();
>> }
>>
>> Ali
>
> Main reason is probably UFCS.
Main reason for D not supporting the name-to-pointer mapping? I don't
think so because as far as I know this has been the case since very
early on but UFCS came very much later.
Ali
