Re: [Boost-users] [thread] Using lambda with unique_future

AMDG On 03/05/2013 12:16 PM, Christian Henning wrote:

I'm toying around with futures and I'm stumbling with the Visual Studio 2010 compiler.

The following doesn't compile:

boost::unique_future<int> the_answer = boost::async( [] () ->int { return 42; } );

the error is:

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clang works just fine: http://liveworkspace.org/code/1gOYwa$2

Is this a compiler error or am I doing something wrong?

I'd guess that the problem is that boost::result_of doesn't work for C++11 lambdas. clang works because decltype-based result_of is enabled for clang. In Christ, Steven Watanabe