---
title: "August 19, 2026"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/august-19-2026-e9nlahgre
source_url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260819-00
type: article
source: "The Old New Thing"
published: 2026-08-20T04:50:44.904Z
updated: 2026-08-20T04:54:57.585Z
tags: ["c++"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
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# 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.

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