Andrei Alexandrescu:
> Last time I looked it was delegate-based, is that still the case?

It is... But I think there's an important missing point here. If future D wants to support functional-style coding, it has to digest delegates/functions efficiently, because they are everywhere in that style of coding. I can't think of D as a functional language if I can't use functions efficiently. So instead of pulling functions/delegates out my code, can D compiler grow better inlining/management of them, etc? :-)

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> Last time I looked it was delegate-based, is that still the case?
> 
> It is... But I think there's an important missing point here. If
> future D wants to support functional-style coding, it has to digest
> delegates/functions efficiently, because they are everywhere in that
> style of coding. I can't think of D as a functional language if I
> can't use functions efficiently. So instead of pulling
> functions/delegates out my code, can D compiler grow better
> inlining/management of them, etc? :-)

I was thinking of delegates vs. aliases.

Andrei