Hi guys, I have a huge amount of code that I want to simplify using delegates. I have an operator token class for operators such as +,-,unary + /- etc. and also functions like sin, cos etc. I would like to store a pointer to the corresponding mathematical function in each instance of the class, but some of these have different signatures. For example the add function would take two double whereas the sin function would only take one. Can anyone give me some advice on how I best solve this? Cheers, Chris

In general, you don't. Delegates are statically typed, and thus will have a fixed signature. Wanting to store two different signatures in the same variable is a bit of a code smell. You probably want to design slightly differently (because say, you don't want the operation itself, you want a representation of it).

That said, if you're using .NET 4, then you can store the delegates in a dynamic type and then as long as you call them correctly, you're good. Just note that only delegates can be stored, so you explicitly need to go

dynamic op = new BinaryDelegateType(Add);

Just assigning the method, anonymous methods and lambda expressions don't work (yet?).

Those are all syntactically valid snippets of C#. I wouldn't say it's the sort of code you'd usually see (idiomatic C# tends to be more verbose).

And no, it doesn't look like VB. It (usually) looks most like Java.