Is it considered as good practice to assign lambda expressions in C++ to a variable? I know from python, that it isn't good practice
Which is more preferable to use: lambda functions or nested functions ('def')?
which makes perfect sense to me, because it makes no sense to give an anonymous function a name. However, I have seen very often in C++ that lambda is assigned to a variable, like here for example
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ranges/drop_view
Is this considered as good practice in C++? From this post here
What is a lambda expression in C++11?
I conclude, it can be also seen as very convenient way to define functors. So it looks like lambda is in C++ considered as more than just an anonymous function.
In short, it usually is. It improves your code by making it more readable. Of course, don't use lambda for lambda's own sake.