From 2732850660790716144 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,2feb33bcd45033ce,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid7894ca11fe,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.alt.net From: Duncan Smith Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Bracket, equals, bracket? Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:13:09 CST Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 17 Sender: std-c++-request@ruralroute.cs.rpi.edu Approved: james.dennett@gmail.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: netlab.cs.rpi.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: (Usenet) Return-Path: X-Hash: SCt|09b0aab274240801660c85f2a956c9adac08c342|be3cdabcc234793e8fcc535bfa7148f5 X-Countries: United States X-SMTP-From: accepted assassin.cs.rpi.edu [128.113.126.17] (assassin.cs.rpi.edu) {United States} DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cs.rpi.edu; h=date :to:sender:message-id:from:subject:content-type; s=default; i= 128.113.126.17@cs.rpi.edu; t=1284937988; x=1285542788; l=642; bh=GhokFtrfTC1uCeVngTaOKPrtYHU=; b=dIuFnhDyJsypp4VyzmjZ1A+sUY4a rfmP5WDJK0Hg+42bAxTFMnygM3ieJ6rAq01nvKCW+gvUtPJRUaIu7gL7WAI2kjn6 S5HoFydypwVFlL0q5zxB65gvKHPNUVV99lflYjMONZLNUCTvsH6iFf5mj4BOPjca /QzNJ6ejVFxlvcI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cs.rpi.edu; h=date:to:sender :message-id:from:subject:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=ZOMI7 YlZcjmDVGlXOyx/QG5/SHW8rAmVNBOoe3hZn3Wqx+OiDj5fCVorIU3EYzQpQR2jV C7IPQMPEsd1JCdehzWOE6s4M9wdDJ+SCQH0IZavyDPGnPElycQ0KDplmuTcQQ5CH C4t/Pj3NtEEvY67H7K/WZlHr+7GTz0BwqG69kg= X-Spam-Report: Spam Report from cliffclavin.cs.rpi.edu (SA:3.2.5): -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP 3.4 HEADER_SPAM Bulk email fingerprint (header-based) found -0.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.2 SARE_HEAD_HDR_APPROV Message headers used which identify spam X-Spam-Info: 0.9, local; ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,HEADER_SPAM,SARE_HEAD_HDR_APPROV X-Spam-Scanned-By: cliffclavin.cs.rpi.edu using SpamAssassin 3.2.5 X-Virus-Scanned-By: cliffclavin.cs.rpi.edu X-Original-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:45:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Submission-Address: std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 128.113.126.25 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:3013 In this months DDJ Herb Sutter writes some code like: class AsyncLogFile { public: void write( string str ) { a.Send( [=] { log.write( str ); } ); } My question is what does [=] mean, I thought square brackets were for indexing arrays unless maybe the operator[] is overloaded, but then a google codesearch shows other uses of [=], does it have a special or common meaning? -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@netlab.cs.rpi.edu] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]