RE: [boost] Most needed/desired features in C++

From: Gary Powell (powellg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-20 12:24:02

From: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
> template<class T> struct construct
> {
>     typedef T result_type;
>     result_type operator()() const { return T(); }
>     template<class A1> result_type operator()(A1 a1) const { return
T(a1); }

  template<class A1> result_type operator()(A1 & a1) const { return T(a1); }

> // impl-def number of additional overloads ;-)
> };
>
> bind(&construct<Foo>, _1);

  bind(construct<Foo>(), _1);

Yep, that's what LL does now. Just seemed to be a hole in the language that
you could get the address of any other member function but not the
constructors.

  -Gary-