Maybe the author wanted this to be C99 compliant but a cool thing is that by using clang we even have lambdas. It's called blocks, the same as in Objective-C.

Maybe the author wanted this to be C99 compliant but a cool thing is that by using clang we even have lambdas. It's called blocks, the same as in Objective-C. http://clang.llvm.org/docs/BlockLanguageSpec.html http://clang.llvm.org/docs/BlockLanguageSpec.html I've been using them in all my new C code, since I'm stuck to clang anyway, and it's awesome.