On lambdas, C++ and otherwise: the what, the why, and the how
This post was originally written on Codeforces; relevant discussion can be found here. Disclaimer: This post (and all of my other posts, unless specified otherwise) is 100% ChatGPT-free — there has been no use of any AI/ML-based application while coming up with the content of this post. The reason and an appeal There is a lot of AI-generated content out there these days that sounds plausible and useful but is absolute garbage and contributes nothing beyond a list of superficial sentences — even if it has content that is true (which is a big IF, by the way), it generates content that you could have just looked up on your favorite search engine. The reason why such current AI-generated content is like this is multi-fold, but I won’t get into it because I need to write the content of this post, too, and I don’t see copy-pasting this kind of content as anything but a stupid maneuver that wastes everyone’s time. ...