On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 15:22 +0800, Nor Jaidi Tuah wrote:
Is there any technical reason why
reference parameters are not supported for async methods?
My work around to this is simply to replace
async void foo (ref X x) // cannot compile
with
async void foo (ClosureX cx)
where Closure is
class ClosureX {
X x;
}
But why can't the compiler do this for us?
I must be missing something.
hand
Nor Jaidi Tuah
I assume that it is due to scoping:
async void foo (ref int i) {
yield;
i = 0;
yield;
}
int j = 1;
foo.begin (ref j);
j is on the stack but foo will access it outside scope. You can use
pointers and take care about scoping/freeing as compiler cannot do it
for you:
async void foo (int *i) {
yield;
*i = 0;
yield;
}
int j = 1;
foo.begin (&j, (obj, res) => {
foo.end (res);
assert (j == 0); // Ok - j still alive
});
Regards
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