The type of a lambda expression is unspecified.
But they are generally mere syntactic sugar for functors. A lambda is translated directly into a functor. Anything inside the []
are turned into constructor parameters and members of the functor object, and the parameters inside ()
are turned into parameters for the functor’s operator()
.
A lambda which captures no variables (nothing inside the []
‘s) can be converted into a function pointer (MSVC2010 doesn’t support this, if that’s your compiler, but this conversion is part of the standard).
But the actual type of the lambda isn’t a function pointer. It’s some unspecified functor type.