How to execute a piece of code only once?

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Compact version using lambda function:

void foo()
{
    static bool once = [](){
        cout << "once" << endl;
        return true;
    } ();
    cout << "foo" << endl;
}

Code within lambda function is executed only once, when the static variable is initialized to the return value of lambda function. It should be thread-safe as long as your compiler support thread-safe static initialization.

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