[cfe-dev] Google Summer of Code Idea: Lambda functions and other C++ 2011 things

[Douglas Gregor]

On Mar 28, 2011, at 2:04 AM, Nicola Gigante wrote:

> Hello everybody.
> 
> I'm a undergraduate student of Computer Science at the University of Udine, Italy, I'm an
> experienced C++ developer and I've followed Clang development for a couple of years
> (not so actively as I whished).
> 
> To being able to (have the time to) work on clang more actively,
> I've decided to apply to the google summer of code for the clang project. I know I'm a bit late for this
> - the period of "students discussing their ideas with organizations" ends today - but I hope this is not 
> a problem.
> 
> My idea would be to work on the C++ side of Clang. In particular, I would like to work on implementing
> lambda functions of C++ 2011.
> This would probably require to implement a couple of other missing things like late-specified return type.

Late-specified return type is already implemented.

> I've read what came up on this list about this topic, and I'm aware of the integration issues with the
> blocks runtime etc...
> If you feel this task is a little small for the three months period of the gsoc, I could also include in the
> plan other C++ 2011 features such as constexpr or the new literals or another..

It's definitely a reasonable task for GSoC. If anything, it might be a little large for GSoC… but that's okay.

> If I get accepted, this would also be the main part of my undergraduate thesis. I think this is a strong
> motivation for me to finish in time (I should graduate in september) and kind of a guarantee for
> you that I'm not going to disappear.
> In the next days, when the student application period opens, I'll submit the formal application,
> but in the meantime some advice would be appreciated.

Okay.

> Is there someone who would like to mentor this project?

Yes.

	- Doug

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