Is it possible to capture by const reference in a lambda expression?
I want the assignment marked below to fail, for example:
#include <cstdlib>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string strings[] =
{
"hello",
"world"
};
static const size_t num_strings = sizeof(strings)/sizeof(strings[0]);
string best_string = "foo";
for_each( &strings[0], &strings[num_strings], [&best_string](const string& s)
{
best_string = s; // this should fail
}
);
return 0;
}
Update: As this is an old question, it might be good to update it if there are facilities in C++14 to help with this. Do the extensions in C++14 allow us to capture a non-const object by const reference? (August 2015)
const
isn't in the grammar for captures as of n3092:
capture:
identifier
& identifier
this
The text only mention capture-by-copy and capture-by-reference and doesn't mention any sort of const-ness.
Feels like an oversight to me, but I haven't followed the standardization process very closely.