This gives me a compiler error:
public static delegate void SomeCoolDelegate();
Why?
This gives me a compiler error: public static delegate void SomeCoolDelegate(); Why?
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This gives me a compiler error:
public static delegate void SomeCoolDelegate();
Why?
Ok so I think what happens is this:
Declaring a delegate is really asking the compiler to create a new special class for you. The job of this class is to act as a function pointer (or multiple function pointers if needed).
The compiler will oblige by creating a new class as you direct with all the things you need to get your job done with the delegate. It will go ahead and create this class, but all the things you are getting are instance level methods and properties, etc.
So declaring a delegate as static is nonsensical (As JaredPar and others pointed out). You are saying ‘give me a static class wherein all the guts are not static (and thus unreachable), etc. etc.” It doesn’t make sense.