Re: capture member variable in labmda.

From:
JiiPee <no@notvalid.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:09:32 +0000
Message-ID:
<yTHJw.118795$pU1.118386@fx24.am4>
How about using a reference to do it:

class Foo
{
public:
     void fun();
     int m_val;
};

void Foo::fun()
{
    int& this_m_val = m_val;
    auto la = [&](){ this_m_val = 55; };
    la();
}

This would change m_val to 55;

On 04/03/2015 13:24, Glen Stark wrote:

Hi everyone.

Consider the following nonsense example (I'm not trying to do exactly
this, but it illustrates my question simply):

class Foo
{
    void fun();
    int m_val;
}

Foo::fun()
{
    std::vector foos = get_some_other_foos();
    auto non_matching_foo = [m_val](Foo f){return (f.m_val != m_val);};
    if(std::find_if(foos.begin(), foos.end(), non_matching_foo))
       std::cout << "found a different foo \n";
    }
}

This won't compile because I can't capture m_val. I realize I can
capture 'this', but I don't really want to capture 'this', as in reality
I just need an int, not everything in the class, and I'd like that to be
clear in the lambda declaration.

Is there a solution to this? I'd also be interested in hearing why the
above isn't allowed.

Thanks

Glen

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