Re: problem with bind2nd

From:
Barry <dhb2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 17 May 2008 07:07:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<26610464-7078-42d5-b85e-fce8094c77e7@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On May 17, 7:06 pm, "Bruintje Beer" <m...@knoware.nl> wrote:

Hi,

I am having the following question (see code below)

the class Data is declared as
class Data
{
public :
    // rest of class

};

class Base : public binary_function<string, Data, bool>
{
public :
    virtual bool operator() (const string& line, Data d) const = 0;

};

class Derived_1 : public Base
{
    bool operator()(const string& line, Data d)


                                                  const

    {
        // do your stuff
        return true or false;
    }

};

class Derived_2 : public Base
{
    bool operator()(const string& line, Data d)


                                                    const

    {
        // do your stuff
        return true or false;
    }

};

in some other class which has a vector dataLines I want to perform a find
on the vector. My problem is that sometimes I need to call the operator()
on the derived_1 class and another time I need to call operator() on the
Derived_2 class. The find function has a pointer to Derived_1 or Derived_2=

class. But what do I put as argument for the bind2nd class

bind2nd( // What do i put here // , data)

I tried bind2nd( c() , data) but is gives me the error below

error C2064: term does not evaluate to a function taking 0 arguments

void MyClass::find(Compare* c, Data data)
{
    vector<string>::iteraor result;


                      iterator

    result = find_if(dataLines.begin(), dataLines.end(), bind2nd( //=

 What do

i put here // , data));

    // rest of code

 }


Well, maybe std::bind2nd(Derived_1(), data);
Don't understand what's 'Compare' here. Wild guess: 'Base'

But keep in mind that STL functions *never* (AFAIK) take a functor by
reference (nor pointer),
so polymorphism is not satisfied.

If you mean 'Base' by 'Compare',
then bind2nd(*c, data) will cause a compile error,
saying 'Base' is an abstract class, can't be instantiated.

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