Re: Can I pass a function by parameter?

[Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 21:31:11 UTC, AsmMan wrote:
Thank you too. Btw, why the & operator in this syntax? I used 
to think ref keyword sort of C's T** and & operator is 
neeeded.. or is it because f can be a function called without 
pass any parameter?

In D, the address-of operator has to be used to get a function 
pointer or delegate from a function or member function. This is 
unlike C and C++, where the function is implicitly convertible to 
its function-pointer type.

This difference in rules may be because D has functions that can 
be called without parentheses:

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int foo() { return 42; }

// Note: `bar` is an overload set.
void bar(void function() a) {}
void bar(int a) {}

void main()
{
    assert(foo() == 42);

    // Nullary functions can also be called without parentheses.
    assert(foo == 42);

    bar(foo); // If function pointers worked like in C, which 
overload should be called?
}
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