Honestly all I would want from C closures is a better syntax for doing exactly that. Whatever it ends up being (if it goes in), it better have some way to interop with "legacy" function pointer + user context APIs. (Including some way to tell the compiler where the user context pointer goes on the closure's arguments.) Otherwise it's just completely useless.

That's all there is to it. I don't understand the whole obsession with closures.

I've used lambdas extensively in modern C++. I hate them with a passion.

I've also used OCaml. An awesome language where this stuff is super natural and beautiful.

I don't understand why people want to shoehorn functional programming into C. C++ was terrible already, and is now worse for it.

> we’re going to be focusing on and looking specifically at Closures in C and C++, since this is going to be about trying to work with and – eventually – standardize something for ISO C that works for everyone.

Sigh. My heart sinks.