Relaxed and extended delegates

One or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing system to perform the following:

• access source code written in a programming language;
• process the source code, wherein processing the source code includes:
• identifying an impermissible expression in the source code, the impermissible expression improperly defining a delegate construction according to the programming language;
• inserting a stub in place of the impermissible expression defining an improper delegate construction, wherein the stub provides a proper exact match in the programming language;
• and
• defining a constructor by a delegate class passed a specification of an object method to make the stub convert a currently impermissible expression to a currently permissible delegate construction;
• and
• moving a requirement that a check for an exact match be performed at delegate creation, such that the a check for an exact match is instead performed at a function call.

A computing system comprising:

• a processor;
• one or more computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor, the one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to:
• access source code written in a programming language, wherein such access is performed by a computing environment that includes a compiler;
• use the computing environment to process the source code, wherein processing the source code includes:
• identifying an impermissible expression in the source code, the impermissible expression improperly defining a delegate construction according to the programming language;
• inserting a stub in place of the impermissible expression defining an improper delegate construction, wherein the stub provides a proper exact match in the programming language, wherein the stub defines an exact match for a function such that when the exact match is acceptable for functions it is also acceptable for delegates, and wherein the stub has a form of:
• Function Y (X as Z) As Z;
• and
• defining a constructor by a delegate class passed a specification of an object method to make the stub convert a currently impermissible expression to a currently permissible delegate construction;
• and
• moving a requirement of the computing environment that a check for an exact match be performed at delegate creation, such that the computing environment instead checks for an exact match at a function call.