[LLVMdev] local lambdas: request for coding standard clarification/judgement call

David Majnemer david.majnemer at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 09:00:00 PDT 2014


Because lambdas can be stateful, they are not simple functions.  I see
lambdas as a shorthand for writing out a functor.

I would write "Helper" because it is an object of the closure type while
the function itself is "operator()".

On Mon Apr 14 2014 at 8:37:14 PM, Duncan Exon Smith <dexonsmith at apple.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Apr 14, 2014, at 20:14, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do local lambdas get named like variables or like functions?
> >
> > E.g.
> >
> > void foo() {
> >   auto helper = [](...){...};
>
> It should be "help" here (verb), not "helper" (noun), but this is the
> direction I like.  It's a local function!
>
> >   // or
> >   auto Helper = [](...){...};
> > }
> >
> > My gut is that it should be lowercase (named like a function) since I
> got a weird feeling in my stomach seeing an upper-case name being called
> like a function in new code.
> >
> > -- Sean Silva
> > _______________________________________________
> > LLVM Developers mailing list
> > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
> > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
> _______________________________________________
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20140415/a39e5472/attachment.html>


More information about the llvm-dev mailing list