Why can a .NET delegate not be declared static?

Question

When I try to compile the following:

public static delegate void MoveDelegate (Actor sender, MoveDirection args);

I receive, as an error: \

Answer 1

You are declaring a delegate type. It doesn't make any sense to declare it as static. You could declare an instance of your delegate type as static, though.

public delegate void BoringDelegate();


internal class Bar {
    public static BoringDelegate NoOp;
    static Bar() {
        NoOp = () => { };
    }
}