If you read the statement carefully, you'll see that it says that the construct is useful, and that a better alternative should appear before it is obsoleted.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2002-12-20 17:20: Subject: implicit lambda
hi,
from the release notes: Note that although useful, this feature has important disadvantages and will probably be obsoleted by a better alternative in the future. ... Another method that overcomes these problems will likely be implemented. The problem is that it can give compatibility problems to change old code that uses implicit lambdas to that one, since e.g. return will work differently without giving any sort of error.
given these statements why was the opportunity not taken, to remove implicit lambda again before the 7.4 release.
anybody using 7.3 should not be depending on stability, and may be expected to change code, but now that the cat is loose it will be much harder to catch.
though i still think that the feature can be removed now, before 7.4 becomes widespread.
what reasons would be against doing that?
greetings, martin.
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