Serializing anonymous delegates in C#

Question

I am trying to determine what issues could be caused by using the following serialization surrogate to enable serialization of anonymous functions/delegate/lambdas.

Answer 1

Since this state is local though that leads to issues when trying to setup a mapping.

Wouldn't local state present the exact same problems for serialization?

Suppose the compiler and the framework allowed this to work:

Other o = FromSomeWhere();
Thing t = OtherPlace();
target.OnWhatever = () => t.DoFoo() + o.DoBar();
target.Save();

I guess t and o had to be serialized too. The methods don't have the state, the instances do.

Later, you deserialize target. Don't you get new copies of t and o? Won't these copies be out of sync with any changes to the original t and o?

Also: couldn't your manual example be called this way?

Other o = FromSomeWhere();
Thing t = OtherPlace();
target.OnWhatever = new DoFooBar() {Other = o, Thing = t} .Run;
target.Save();