Delegates and anonymous methods (by PEtter)

A little stange thing I found using delegates in vb .net 3.5

Starting with:

Public delegate Function Something(ByVal a as integer, ByVal b as integer) as boolean

Public Function doSomething(ByVal a as integer, ByVal b as integer) as boolean

  return a = b

end function

To use this you would do something like this:

 Public Function ExecuteDelegate(ByVal a As Integer, ByVal B As Integer, ByVal d As Something) As Boolean

            Return d(a, B)

        End Function

And then you can use your function with a delegate:

  ExecuteDelegate(1,2, addressOf doSomething)

In .net 3.5(vb) you could simplify this by using inline functions:

ExecuteDelegate(1,2,Function(ByVal a As Integer, ByVal B As Integer) A = B))

And so to the strange part.

If you do not need the parameters to resolve your return value you could do:

ExecuteDelegate(1,2,Function() false )

As you can see, inlining the delegate without the correct signature, but as long as you provide 'no signature' this works fine!

'Funny'?