I mean, given your first paragraph I would say: yes. To like all of those. It IS basic. So yeah. It's been a basic feature since the 70s. I guess you can give a

I mean, given your first paragraph I would say: yes. To like all of those. It IS basic. So yeah. It's been a basic feature since the 70s. I guess you can give a demerit to C++ for it being the one feature they didn't steal from elsewhere, but then again you can give C++ a black eye for a lot of things. (And still: C++ managed to get lambdas before java did. How messed up is that? Extending Java is about 10x easier than trying to add something to the crufty minefield that is the C++ spec, and they still beat them to the punch.)