What is the lifetime of a C++ lambda expression?

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The lifetime is exactly what it would be if you replaced your lambda with a hand-rolled functor:

struct lambda {
   lambda(int x) : x(x) { }
   int operator ()(int y) { return x + y; }

private:
   int x;
};

std::function<int(int)> meta_add(int x) {
   lambda add(x);
   return add;
}

The object will be created, local to the meta_add function, then moved [in its entirty, including the value of x] into the return value, then the local instance will go out of scope and be destroyed as normal. But the object returned from the function will remain valid for as long as the std::function object that holds it does. How long that is obviously depends on the calling context.

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