capture-list – Tarik Billa

Is self captured within a nested function

December 27, 2023 by Tarik

Unfortunately, only Closures have “Capture List” feature like [weak self]. For nested functions, You have to use normal weak or unowned variables. func myInstanceMethod() { weak var _self = self func nestedFunction(result : Bool) { _self?.anotherInstanceMethod() } functionExpectingClosure(nestedFunction) }

When moving a unique_ptr into a lambda, why is it not possible to call reset?

September 17, 2023 by Tarik

Why does this happen? Because the function-call operator of a lambda, Unless the keyword mutable was used in the lambda-expression, the function-call operator is const-qualified and the objects that were captured by copy are non-modifiable from inside this operator(). and Is it possible to capture the std::unique_ptr in another way which allows to call reset() … Read more