trouble with std::find_if()

From:
Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 2 Jul 2008 06:11:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<8bc8b4a5-2471-416e-a661-7675333b6c21@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
Hi,

this is cut from a larger program.

<code>

#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>

typedef unsigned int SapId;

class Sap
{
public:
    explicit Sap(SapId id): id_(id)
    {}

    SapId ident () const
    { return id_; }

private:
    SapId id_;
};

typedef std::vector<Sap*> SapList;

SapList sap_list_;

class SapIdMatchPredicate
{
public:
    SapIdMatchPredicate(SapId id): id_(id)
    {}

    bool operator() (const Sap& sap) const
    { return sap.ident() == id_; }

private:
    const SapId id_;
};

SapList::iterator find (const SapId sap_id)
{
    SapIdMatchPredicate sap_id_match (sap_id);
    return std::find_if (sap_list_.begin(), sap_list_.end(),
sap_id_match);
}

int main (void)
{
    SapList::iterator i;
    i = find (1234); return 0;
}

</code>

I've presumably done something wrong with the functor. I get
compilation errors

     '()' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'class Sap *' to 'const
class Sap &'
     term does not evaluate to a function

the erroneous line is deep in algorithm.h

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