I searched for anonymous function (and lambda function) in the docs and didn't find it

[danr]

Anonymous functions (lambda functions) seem either to be missing for the docs or the language ;)

[tmccombs]

I could be wrong, but my impressions from the docs is that they aren't in the language. But given that most modern languages have some kind of closure/lambda, it would probably be good to explicitly state if zig doesn't have them, and why (or maybe there are plans to add them but it hasn't happened yet?). At the very least it seems like you should be able to statically define an anonymous function from a compile time function, similar to what you can do with a struct.

[gpanders]

Anonymous functions can be used by accessing an anonymous struct, e.g.:

struct {
    fn myfunc(x: u8, y: u8) u8 {
        return x + y;
    }
}.myfunc

This is not documented anywhere but you can find examples of it in the standard library.

[kristoff-it]

Closures are not in the language but they are being discussed in ziglang/zig#229

Closing until that gets resolved