on std::bind2nd

[ES Kim]

Here's a simple code:

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>
using namespace std;

struct S
{
void f(int) const { }
void g(const int&) const { }
};

int main()
{
int n = 1;
vector<S> v;
for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), bind2nd(mem_fun_ref(&S::f), n));
for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), bind2nd(mem_fun_ref(&S::g), n));
}

What is the reason why the second for_each() doesn't compile?

 

[Leor Zolman]

Here's a simple code:

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>
using namespace std;

struct S
{
void f(int) const { }
void g(const int&) const { }
};

int main()
{
int n = 1;
vector<S> v;
for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), bind2nd(mem_fun_ref(&S::f), n));
for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), bind2nd(mem_fun_ref(&S::g), n));
}

What is the reason why the second for_each() doesn't compile?

This is the "reference-to-reference" problem; Scott Meyers discusses it in
Item #50 of _Effective STL_, where he mentions that the Boost library
provides alternate function objects to get around the problem. I haven't
played with them, but you may get lucky at www.boost.org.
-leor

 

[ES Kim]

Thank you.
I've got it fixed using Boost.
Happy to learn something today.

 

[Leor Zolman]

Thank you.
I've got it fixed using Boost.
Happy to learn something today.

Great! And I just realized I wrote "function objects" when I actually
meant "adapters", but that doesn't seem to have slowed you down. Good
job!
-leor