A comparison between C++ and D

[bigsandwich via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 20:14:13 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 18:26:01 UTC, bigsandwich wrote:
>> [...]
>
> You can easily do it yourself with a struct. That's all the c++ 
> lambda is anyway, a bit of syntax sugar over a struct.
>
> [...]

Right,  I used to this sort of thing in C++ prior to C++11.  I 
think not having an RAII wrapper for lambdas similar to 
std::function<> is an oversight for D, especially for people 
averse to GC.  That little bit of syntactic sugar makes a huge 
difference.