Make Function closures only accept a pointer context

src/core/io.zig

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ pub const Allocator = union (enum) {
 /// Closure that captures a reference to readable resources like block devices, memory buffers,
 /// network sockets, and more.
 ///
-pub const Reader = meta.Function(@sizeOf(usize), []u8, usize);
+pub const Reader = meta.Function([]u8, usize);
 
 ///
 /// Returns a state machine for lazily computing all `Element` components of a given source input
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ test "Spliterator of string literals" {
 /// Closure that captures a reference to writable resources like block devices, memory buffers,
 /// network sockets, and more.
 ///
-pub const Writer = meta.Function(@sizeOf(usize), []const u8, usize);
+pub const Writer = meta.Function([]const u8, usize);
 
 ///
 /// Returns a sliced reference of the raw bytes in `pointer`.
@@ -383,8 +383,10 @@ test "Data swapping" {
 /// sent somewhere for whatever reason.
 ///
 pub fn nullWriter() Writer {
-    return Writer.capture(@as(usize, 0), struct {
+    var dummy: usize = 0;
-        fn write(_: usize, buffer: []const u8) usize {
+
+    return Writer.capture(&dummy, struct {
+        fn write(_: *usize, buffer: []const u8) usize {
             return buffer.len;
         }
     }.write);

src/core/meta.zig

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ pub fn FnReturn(comptime Fn: type) type {
 /// Returns a single-input single-output closure type where `In` represents the input type, `Out`
 /// represents the output type, and `captures_size` represents the size of the closure context.
 ///
-pub fn Function(comptime captures_size: usize, comptime In: type, comptime Out: type) type {
+pub fn Function(comptime In: type, comptime Out: type) type {
     return struct {
         callErased: fn (*anyopaque, In) Out,
-        context: [captures_size]u8,
+        context: *anyopaque,
 
         ///
         /// Function type.
@@ -27,37 +27,36 @@ pub fn Function(comptime captures_size: usize, comptime In: type, comptime Out:
         /// Invokes `self` with `input`, producing a result according to the current context data.
         ///
         pub fn call(self: *Self, input: In) Out {
-            return self.callErased(&self.context, input);
+            return self.callErased(self.context, input);
         }
 
         ///
-        /// Creates a new [Self] by capturing the `captures` value as the context and `invoke` as
+        /// Creates a new [Self] by capturing the `context` value as the capture context and
-        /// the as the behavior executed when [call] or [callErased] is called.
+        /// `invoke` as the behavior executed when [call] or [callErased] is called.
         ///
         /// The newly created [Self] is returned.
         ///
-        pub fn capture(captures: anytype, comptime invoke: fn (@TypeOf(captures), In) Out) Self {
+        pub fn capture(context: anytype, comptime invoke: fn (@TypeOf(context), In) Out) Self {
-            const Captures = @TypeOf(captures);
+            const Context = @TypeOf(context);
 
-            if (@sizeOf(Captures) > captures_size)
+            switch (@typeInfo(Context)) {
-                @compileError("`captures` exceeds the size limit of the capture context");
+                .Pointer => |info| if (info.size == .Slice)
+                    @compileError("`context` cannot be a slice"),
 
-            const captures_align = @alignOf(Captures);
+                else => @compileError("`context` must be a pointer"),
+            }
 
             var function = Self{
-                .context = undefined,
+                .context = @ptrCast(*anyopaque, context),
 
                 .callErased = struct {
                     fn callErased(erased: *anyopaque, input: In) Out {
-                        return invoke(if (Captures == void) {} else @ptrCast(*Captures,
+                        return invoke(@ptrCast(*Context, @alignCast(
-                            @alignCast(@alignOf(Captures), erased)).*, input);
+                            @alignOf(Context), erased)).*, input);
                     }
                 }.callErased,
             };
 
-            if (Captures != void)
-                @ptrCast(*Captures, @alignCast(captures_align, &function.context)).* = captures;
-
             return function;
         }
     };