[boost] Re: indirecter_unary, indirecter_binary

From: Matthias Kaeppler (nospam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-06 17:14:37

Pavel Chikulaev wrote:
> Now std::sort(vec.begin(), vec.end(), std::less<int>()) won't work.

No, why should it? It's a collection of pointers to int, not of int.

> But I can do it with Boost::Bind:
>     std::sort(vec.begin(), vec.end(), boost::bind(std::less<int>(), *_1, 
> *_2));

This looks new to me. What exactly does this do? Sort the container of 
pointers by applying std::less to the pointees?

> 
> Boost::Bind's solution is much better that yours, because it constists
> indirector_unary, indirector_binary, indirector_ternary and so on.
> 
> Pavel Chikulaev 
> 
> 
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