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Recently a Faisal Vali put forth an implementation of n3418, which he co-authored with Herb Stutter and Dave Abraham, allowing generic lambdas using a fork of clang. It also includes auto type deduction, which I wrote about being implemented in gcc 4.8. There are a few caveats before continuing: This has not been merged into the mainline. It has a few bugs, but Vali is quick to fix them if you point one out. The implementation itself is a proof of concept (similar to automatic type deduction) and so it isn't unreasonable to assume some things might change. Section 2.4 of the proposal (named lambdas) has not yet been implemented. And while this doesn't allow us to do many things that were previously impossible, the possible used to be so verbose that no one would want to do it!