<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 28, 2011, at 2:04 AM, Nicola Gigante wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hello everybody.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm a undergraduate student of Computer Science at the University of Udine, Italy, I'm an</div><div>experienced C++ developer and I've followed Clang development for a couple of years</div><div>(not so actively as I whished).</div><div><br></div><div>To being able to (have the time to) work on clang more actively,</div><div>I've decided to apply to the google summer of code for the clang project. I know I'm a bit late for this</div><div>- the period of "students discussing their ideas with organizations" ends today - but I hope this is not </div><div>a problem.</div><div><br></div><div>My idea would be to work on the C++ side of Clang. In particular, I would like to work on implementing</div><div>lambda functions of C++ 2011.</div><div>This would probably require to implement a couple of other missing things like late-specified return type.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Late-specified return type is already implemented.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I've read what came up on this list about this topic, and I'm aware of the integration issues with the</div><div>blocks runtime etc...</div><div>If you feel this task is a little small for the three months period of the gsoc, I could also include in the</div><div>plan other C++ 2011 features such as constexpr or the new literals or another..</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's definitely a reasonable task for GSoC. If anything, it might be a little large for GSoC… but that's okay.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>If I get accepted, this would also be the main part of my undergraduate thesis. I think this is a strong</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; ">motivation for me to finish in time (I should graduate in september) and kind of a guarantee for</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap; "></span>you that I'm not going to disappear.</div><div>In the next days, when the student application period opens, I'll submit the formal application,</div><div>but in the meantime some advice would be appreciated.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Okay.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Is there someone who would like to mentor this project?</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Doug</div><br></body></html>