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2024-04-18

772. capture-default in lambdas in local default arguments

[Voted into the WP at the July, 2009 meeting as part of N2927.]

Assuming that it is permitted to use a lambda as a default argument in a block-scope function declaration (see issue 754), it is presumably ill-formed for such a lambda expression to refer to a local automatic variable (9.3.4.7 [dcl.fct.default] paragraph 7). What does this mean for capture-defaults? For example,

    void f() {
      int i = 1;
      void f(int = ([i]() { return i; })());  // Definitely an error
      void g(int = ([i]() { return 0; })());  // Probably an error
      void h(int = ([=]() { return i; })());  // Definitely an error
      void o(int = ([=]() { return 0; })());  // Okay?
      void p(int = ([]() { return sizeof i; })());  // Presumably okay
    }

Proposed resolution (July, 2009)

See document PL22.16/09-0117 = WG21 N2927.