Re: [Boost-users] Using lambda for sort

From: Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-09 04:43:51

On 8/9/07, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> >>>       sort(countries1.begin(), countries1.end(),
> >>> _1->second > _2->second);
>
>  sort( countries1.begin(), countries1.end(),
>
>   bind( &countries_t::value_type::second, *_1 )  > bind(
> &countries_t::value_type::second, *_2 )

Thanks, that did the trick. I didn't know you could use bind like this
too. But why does the simpler syntax not work?