Comment by humanrebar

Strong disagree.

The nonsense needed for "variadic" templates in C++03 isn't "just do without lambdas". You basically have to walk on eggshells to get the equivalent of unique_ptr. Not having to type std::vector<SomeTypeName, WhateverBuffer>::const_iterator changes the way you write code, too.

The stronger guarantees on copy elision lets you skip return by reference nonsense more aggressively.