Re: [boost] TR1 review manager needed

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-20 11:43:47

John Maddock wrote:
>> Does it really have a TR1-compatible bind()?  According to Peter,
>> Boost.Bind is not TR1-compatible.

It's compatible, but not fully conforming. Every valid boost::bind 
expression should be a valid tr1::bind expression, but the reverse is not 
true.

> I've tried to document all the incompatibilities with TR1 that I've
> found, for Bind I have:
>
> " Standard Conformity: The traits classes is_placeholder and
> is_bind_expression are not supported by the Boost implementation. "
>
> Those were the only incompatibilities I found when I wrote the
> concept test program from for bind from the TR1 spec, although there
> were some compilers (including gcc) that had other problems: I
> couldn't figure out whether this was a problem with Bind or the
> compiler.  Is there anything else I should be aware of?

Boost.Bind doesn't support or use result_of.