[boost] Re: indirecter_unary, indirecter_binary

From: Pavel Chikulaev (pavel.chikulaev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-06 17:23:29

"Matthias Kaeppler" <nospam_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:d0futi$j8m$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
>> 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.

Read boost::bind documentation http://www.boost.org/libs/bind/bind.html.

Pavel Chikulaev