C++ Tutorial => Capture by reference

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If you precede a local variable's name with an &, then the variable will be captured by reference. Conceptually, this means that the lambda's closure type will have a reference variable, initialized as a reference to the corresponding variable from outside of the lambda's scope. Any use of the variable in the lambda body will refer to the original variable:

// Declare variable 'a'
int a = 0;

// Declare a lambda which captures 'a' by reference
auto set = [&a]() {
    a = 1;
};

set();
assert(a == 1);

The keyword mutable is not needed, because a itself is not const.

Of course, capturing by reference means that the lambda must not escape the scope of the variables it captures. So you could call functions that take a function, but you must not call a function that will store the lambda beyond the scope of your references. And you must not return the lambda.

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