Re: [boost] Bind comparisons

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-03 07:54:30

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>>> *_1 < *_2 is different, as the subexpression *_1 requires return
>>>> type deduction. This is Lambda territory at the moment; Boost.Bind
>>>> doesn't do deduction.
>>>
>>> Yeah, OK.
>>
>> If you could stand a dependency on pointee.hpp, bind /could/ do
>> deduction for this very important operator.
>
> Currently bind doesn't do any deduction; its objects always have a 
> result_type. If I make *_1 work, I may as well just go ahead and create a 
> mini-lambda. :-) Why duplicate the Lambda library? 

Because lambda doesn't work smoothly shared_ptr et al., for one.  And
it's not as portable.

I've been waiting too long for phoenix-2, I guess :(

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Dave Abrahams
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