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   > Maybe I'm missing something here, but apart from self-assignment   
   > there isn't any other object of the same closure type, so what would   
   > be the use of copy assignment?   
      
   I think this is the main reason -- lambda types are identical to each   
   other, and both the lambda and their type are unnamed.  Assignment does   
   not work with different types.  And self-assignment is impossible,   
   because lambda is a prvalue.   
      
      
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