On 8 June 2013 09:48, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.ca> wrote:

On 2013-06-07 23:21:53 +0000, Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> said:

Thoughts?

Reminds me of something similar I implemented a while ago:
http://michelf.ca/projects/d-objc/syntax/#selector-literals

Not only I think member function pointers are doable, but I think they're solely missing. There have been situations where I'd have used them but instead had to hack my way using a delegate. That was to build a bridge for Objective-C (before I decided to hack the compiler). I'd guess you're doing something of the sort too?

Precisely. The concept is already embedded inside of delegate, but delegate is framed like a piece of magic, rather than a well defined compound of more primitive pieces.

Those primitive pieces would be useful in certain cases (like mine, and yours).

I think the only missing detail is a way to express a 'thiscall' function pointer, which I believe my suggestion satisfies quite nicely.