Closures and lambdas in C++

Posted on 2 April 2008 by John

The ISO C++ Standard committee voted to closures and lambda (anonymous) functions to the language according to Herb Sutter. Anonymous functions would make templates much easier to use, but it seems odd to add these features to C++.

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Maybe C++ hasn’t jumped the shark after all — The Endeavour says:

6 July 2011 at 05:42

[...] I heard about plans to add lambdas and closures to C++ I commented here that “it seems odd to add these features to C++.” Now I think lambdas (anonymous [...]