hey lispers, knights of the lambda calculus

its over; you've lost. C++0x will have lambda functions. 2011 is the year of C++0x and there is not a goddamn thing you can do about it.

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Agreed. Sadly, the C++ people will probably keep going with this until they have a bunch of features from other languages all cobbled together, so that way they will have the ultimate justification for not learning/using a language other than C++ (rather than the real reason, which is stupidity).

Actually, I just looked up what the lambda expressions look like. Jesus Christ, what a pile of shit. According to Wikipedia, summing the values of a vector looks like this:

std::vector<int> some_list;
int total = 0;
std::for_each(some_list.begin(), some_list.end(), [&total](int x) {
  total += x;
});

Nasty. I'll stick with Scheme/Haskell, thanks.