Re: std::tr1::function and constructors

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:30:06 +0100
Message-ID:
<go2hck$bm$1@news.motzarella.org>
* Parapura Rajkumar:

hey all

  Is this code standard ?


Seems to be.

It seems to be ok VS 2008 but gcc complains
that function needs a valid return type

 Basically I am trying to store a constructor as a std::tr1::function


This is in code you haven't shown.

Why do you not show the problem code, but only the apparently non-problematic code?

A constructor does not have a result type, not even 'void'.

What you can do instead is to pass a factory function around.

Probably you don't need to wrap that as a std::tr1::function, but you could.

     template<class POLYMORPHIC>

The single letters 'T', 'U' and so on are effectively idiomatic as names of
template type parameters.

Apart from that (and a few other idioms), don't use ALL UPPERCASE names for
anything but macros.

And for macros always use all uppercase names.

             struct Factory_traits
            {
                typedef std::tr1::function<POLYMORPHIC*()> func_type;
            };

Post a minimal /complete/ example that exemplifies the error with g++, please.

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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