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Document number: N4487

Date: 2015-04-28

Constexpr Lambda

by Faisal Vali, Ville Voutilainen, Gabriel Dos Reis

Excerpt:

This proposal suggests allowing lambda-expressions in constant expressions, removing an existing restriction. The authors propose that certain lambda-expressions and operations on certain closure objects be allowed to appear within constant expressions. In doing so, we also propose that a closure type be considered a literal type if the type of each of its data-members is a literal type; and, that if the constexpr specifier is omitted within the lambda-declarator, that the generated function call operator be constexpr if it would satisfy the requirements of a constexpr function (similar to the constexpr inference that already occurs for implicitly defined constructors and the assignment operator functions).