Unifying Generic Functions and Function Objects -- Dave Abrahams

From Dave Abrahams:

Unifying Generic Functions and Function Objects

I just got finished collaborating on a proposal with Faisal Vali and Herb Sutter to include generic lambdas and pythy functions in the core language. After the upcoming Portland committee meeting, we should have a good sense of how much appetite there is on the committee for including these features in C++.

While we were writing that paper, we got some of our most helpful comments and insights from Mathias Gaunard. It was a pivotal moment when Mathias reminded us that we could create operator overload sets explicitly with inheritance and using declarations, and then used it to demonstrate "overloaded lambda expressions..."

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elvio said on Nov 6, 2012 03:31 AM:

the [more] link does not work.