Re: Is std::tr1::function intended to work ONLY with function objects which implement the operator() as const?

From:
Peter Dimov <pdimov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.std.c++
Date:
Sat, 19 May 2007 22:01:19 CST
Message-ID:
<1179619594.838126.23190@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On May 18, 8:02 pm, Florin Neamtu <nea...@zappmobile.ro> wrote:

Hi,

I'm using an STL implementation that fails to compile the below code.
So the question is: is the below code standard? Or the behavior is
implementation-specific?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <functional>

struct functor
{
      void operator() (int) { } // not const

};

int main()
{
      functor fun;
      std::tr1::function<void(int)> f = fun; // Is this standard?
      return 0;}

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My understanding is that the code is standard compliant.


I believe that you are right and that the code is TR1-compliant. The
requirement of the constructor is that its argument "shall be
callable", and 'fun' fits the definition of Callable. In addition, the
specification of function<>::operator() does not say that the target
is invoked as const, so f(5) should work as well, although this isn't
100% clear from the standard text (even though it's 96% clear in my
opinion).

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