Re: Why not add a feature to let lambda reference itself?

From:
Christopher Creutzig <christopher@creutzig.de>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:55:04 -0700 (PDT)
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On 3/11/12 8:02 AM, Roman W wrote:

On Saturday, March 10, 2012 7:22:22 PM UTC, Christopher Creutzig wrote:

No, see ?5.1.2.7:

| [?] for purposes of [?] determining the type and value of this
| (9.3.2) [?], the compound-statement is considered in the context of
| the lambda-expression.


Do you mean that "this" would always refer to the (possible) object
creating the lambda function?


Right. And, to be honest, I find that much more intuitive. It allows
writing something like this sketch:

class ButtonController {
  // ...
public:
  void attach(Button *b) {
    // ...
    b->setCallback([&b]() -> void { onClicked(b) });
  }
protected:
  virtual void onClicked(Button *b) = 0;
}

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