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

[Sean Silva]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:34 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!
>

I didn't mean anything  by the name here besides the case; I should have
just written "bar". I think David's point about the lambda being the object
of closure type while the function itself is "operator()" could be used to
argue for naming it as a noun, although I expect that most local lambdas
will more naturally be verbs (the original case which got me to write this
post was a local lambda called "eat").

-- Sean Silva


>
> >   // 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
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