Not-yet-discussed in HotSpot style guide: C++ Lambdas

[Kim Barrett]

> On Aug 14, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 14, 2021, at 5:28 AM, Andrew Haley <aph-open at littlepinkcloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/doc/hotspot-style.md says:
>> 
>> "Undecided Features
>> 
>> This list is incomplete; it serves to explicitly call out some
>> features that have not yet been discussed.  ...  Lambdas"
>> 
> 
> Funny you should mention lambdas.  There has been a fair amount of
> discussion around them internally here at Oracle.  And there are some
> folks trying them out in not-yet-ready-for-production work.  I’ve drafted
> a style-guide modification reflecting that discussion, along with a couple
> examples, and am planning to open a PR in the next few days.
> 
> You can see the current work in progress here:
> 
> https://github.com/kimbarrett/openjdk-jdk/tree/permit_lambda
> 
> Note that I'm planning to rebase and do some commit refactoring / reordering
> before opening the PR.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/5144