A new (but not so welcome?) addition Lambdas are one of the new features added to C++ and seem to cause considerable consternation amongst many programmers. In this article we’ll have a look at the syntax and underlying implementation of lambdas to try and put them into some sort of context. Functors and the Standard Library With STL algorithms the processing on each element is performed by a user-supplied unary or binary functor object. For common operations, the STL-supplied functors can be used [...]
