On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Sohail Somani wrote:
> > Do you need new class types, or just an anonymous FUNCTION_DECL?
>
> Hi Mark, thanks for your reply.
>
> In general it would be a new class. If the lambda function looks like:
>
> void myfunc()
> {
>
> int a;
>
> ...<>(int i1,int i2) extern (a) {a=i1+i2}...
>
> }
>
> That would be a new class with an int reference (initialized to a) and
> operator()(int,int).
>
> Does that clarify?
Can lambda functions like this escape myfunc? If not then using the
nested function mechanism that is already in GCC seems like a good
thing. In fact I think of lambda functions as nested functions.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
