Re: [boost] What to do about std::binary_function and std::unary_function?

Subject: Re: [boost] What to do about std::binary_function and std::unary_function?
From: Nevin Liber (nevin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-06 15:01:16

On 6 May 2016 at 03:32, Rainer Deyke <rainerd_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 05.05.2016 21:18, Nick Matteo wrote:
>
>> 3) A modification of approach 2: instead of manually adding the
>> typedefs everywhere, make a base class to provide the typedefs
>> somewhere in Boost. Then replace inheritance from
>> std::binary_function<Arg1, Arg2, Result> with inheritance from
>> boost::binary_function<Arg1, Arg2, Result>.
>>
>
> 3a) Provide boost::binary_function<Arg1, Arg2, Result>, which inherits
> std::binary_function<Arg1, Arg2, Result> if it is available, and
> reimplements std::binary_function otherwise.
>

I disagree.  The standard is getting rid of them for good reason.  Boost
should too.

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