Frits van Bommel Wrote:
> Zoran Isailovski wrote:
> > I'm an experienced C#, Java and Python programmer, and have employed
> > closures (and C# delegates) upon numerous occasions. While experimenting
> > with D closures and delegates, I was stroke by a phenomenon I cannot
> > explain. Here's the code:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > Handler incBy(int n)
> > {
> > return delegate(int arg){ return arg + n; };
> > }
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > /* **************************************** *
> > * Compiled with: Digital Mars D Compiler v1.030
> > *
> > * (Unexplainable) program output:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > What goes wrong???
>
> Dv1.x doesn't automatically allocate closures for escaping delegates, so
> the storage used for parameter "n" is getting overwritten when another
> function is called.
> Try the latest v2.x compiler, or explicitly copy the parameter to the heap.
Thx, Frits, but I'm stll confused. See my response to Denis.
