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Is constexpr supported with lambda functions / expressions?

struct Test
{
  static const int value = []() -> int { return 0; } ();
};

With gcc-4.6 I get something like, error: function needs to be constexpr. I have tried multiple combinations of putting constexpr at various places, but no luck.

Is constexpr supported for lambda functions as well (irrespective of return type specified or not) ? What is the correct syntax ?

Any work around possible ?

Solution

  • Update: As of C++17, lambdas are permitted in constant expressions.

    Lambdas are currently (C++14) not allowed in constant expressions as per [expr.const]/(2.6), but they will once N4487 is accepted (which can be found in the working draft N4582):

    This proposal suggests allowing lambda-expressions in constant expressions, removing an existing restriction. The authors propose that certain lambda-expressions and operations on certain closure objects be allowed to appear within constant expressions. In doing so, we also propose that a closure type be considered a literal type if the type of each of its data-members is a literal type; and, that if the constexpr specifier is omitted within the lambda-declarator, that the generated function call operator be constexpr if it would satisfy the requirements of a constexpr function (similar to the constexpr inference that already occurs for implicitly defined constructors and the assignment operator functions).