There are several questions on SO that relate to casting lambdas to std::functions, but I have yet to see one that uses a parameter pack for the argument list. This seems broken on my version of g++ (7.1.1-4), and possibly it's just not supported. So is this legal c++17 (by the standard)? If not, why?
#include <functional>
template <typename TReturn, typename ... TArgs>
void Functor(std::function<TReturn (TArgs...)> f) {}
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
auto x = [] (int a, int b) { return a * b; };
Functor<int, int, int>(x);
return 0;
}
The code above won't compile because it fails type deduction. Obviously explicitly typing x as std::function<int (int, int)> instead of using auto makes the error go away. But that doesn't allow me to pass an r-value to Functor as I would like. I would also like to not loose any type-safety by using another template parameter for the function type.
What I really don't understand is why the above code fails to compile, but the below code is fine and works:
#include <functional>
template <typename TReturn, typename TArgA, typename TArgB>
void Functor(std::function<TReturn (TArgA, TArgB)> f) {}
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
auto x = [] (int a, int b) { return a * b; };
Functor<int, int, int> (x);
return 0;
}