[...rearranging...]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:34 AM, John M. Dlugosz <mpbecey7gu@snkmail.com> wrote:
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:15:18 -0700 From: Nathan Crookston <nathan.crookston@gmail.com> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Range & c++0x Lambdas] Can this be done? Message-ID: <CAMb0s=1qtLcOiXTd5h7b2qkOSiYqjEVeN-m=rafJRHKDU6y6Cg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Rob, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Robert Jones <robertgbjones@gmail.com>wrote:
Can the last line, labelled NOT Ok, be made to work? I think the lambda
does
not publish its result as a bind does, so I suspect it's hopeless. Any
thoughts?
      // NOT Ok
     boost::range::push_back( out, in | transformed( []( S & s ) { return
s.i; } ) );
}

It seems trivial to have a nested result_type in all cases with a lambda.
However, in C++11 there's no need for it due to decltype.

Sadly, some compilers fall into a gap where result_of (boost or std)
doesn't use decltype and lambdas don't publish tr1-style result_type --
leaving code like the above in the lurch.

Michel Morin wrote some code for adapting such a case which may be of
interest to you: http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2012/01/72879.php

HTH,
Nate
 
I had the same issue and posted it a few months ago. I wrote to the MS VS forum that their std::result_of should work correctly with both old and new formats; in particular use the declared result_type if it exists (which in general lets the user override the deduced type, great for compatibility issues).

Actually doing that robustly is a bit of a maze of metaprogramming. I ended up making a local my_namespace::result_of that I just handles what I needed, and only when I asked for it. That doesn't help the existing range templates, but such a change could be put back into boost::result_of.

Maybe this is what you did, so I might not be suggesting something new, but... Perhaps boost::result_of could have an extra conditional logic branch added to it:
- If F::result_type exists, return F::result_type;
- Else:
  - If BOOST_NO_CXX11_DECLTYPE, return F::result< F ( Args... ) >
  - Else, if F::result<> exists, return F::result< F ( Args... ) >
  - Else return decltype( declval<F>() ( declval< Args >()... ) )

Meanwhile, for different reasons, I made a macro that abstracts the different syntax between C++11 lambdas and Apple Block Closures. The latter generates a suitable lambda class complete with result_of member. That makes me think that you could have a macro that wraps a compiler-generated lambda expression in another class that inherits the operator() etc. and adds in the result_of typedef to simply use decltype.

Wouldn't that require defining a class at expression scope? Is that possible?

- Jeff