--- title: August 19, 2026 | daily.dev description: A brief note pointing out that wrapping a callable in a lambda that simply forwards the same parameters to that callable is unnecessary; you should just use... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/august-19-2026-e9nlahgre twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: August 19, 2026 | daily.dev og:description: A brief note pointing out that wrapping a callable in a lambda that simply forwards the same parameters to that callable is unnecessary; you should just use... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/august-19-2026-e9nlahgre og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/E9nlAHgre.png og:image:alt: August 19, 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # August 19, 2026 **[The Old New Thing](https://daily.dev/sources/oldnewthing)** · 1 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief note pointing out that wrapping a callable in a lambda that simply forwards the same parameters to that callable is unnecessary; you should just use the callable directly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [October 2, 2025](https://daily.dev/posts/october-2-2025-tst3d8uiy) · C\+\+ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [August 20, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/august-20-2026-zjzarhijy) · The Old New Thing · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [August 27, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/august-27-2026-aidwamjk4) · The Old New Thing · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [July 30, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/july-30-2026-eozgvn9pb) · The Old New Thing · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [This Week in Spring - August 18th, 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-spring---august-18th-2026-ruzhoofsp) · Spring · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#c++](https://daily.dev/tags/c++) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/august-19-2026-e9nlahgre) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"August 19, 2026","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/august-19-2026-e9nlahgre","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/august-19-2026-e9nlahgre"},"datePublished":"2026-08-20T04:50:44.904Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:05:55.715Z","description":"A brief note pointing out that wrapping a callable in a lambda that simply forwards the same parameters to that callable is unnecessary; you should just use...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--qPvKM23u--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2009","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--qPvKM23u--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2009","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Old New Thing","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Old New Thing","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--jKXDeorG--/f_auto,q_auto/v1783840773/logos/oldnewthing?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/oldnewthing"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/august-19-2026-e9nlahgre","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"c++","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Old New Thing","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/oldnewthing"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"August 19, 2026"}]} ```