Re: Compilation error

From:

"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:21:42 +0100

Message-ID:

<568r97F283lntU1@mid.individual.net>

* Adrian Hawryluk:

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
template <typename dest_t, typename src_t>
class fill
{
    src_t const & value;
public:
    fill(src_t const & value)
    : value(value) {}

    void operator()(dest_t& dest)
    {
    }
};

template<typename dest_t, typename src_t>
inline fill<dest_t, src_t const> make_fill(dest_t& dest, src_t& src)
{
    return fill<dest_t, src_t const>(src);
}

int main2(int argc, char* argv[])
{

    vector<int> aa;
    aa.push_back(3);
    aa.push_back(5);
    int b = 3;
    for_each(aa.begin(), aa.end(), make_fill(*aa.begin(), b));

    return 0;
}
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This is driving me nuts.

'fill' is a standard library template function.

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