Re: Custom iterator or custom predicate?

From:
Barry <dhb2000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 29 May 2008 13:36:03 +0800
Message-ID:
<g1lfc8$dtv$1@news.cn99.com>
Kenneth Porter wrote:

I went with a custom predicate:

// compares two vectors on the nth element
template <class V, unsigned index>
class VectorElementLess : std::less<V>
{
public:
   bool operator()(const V& _Left, const V& _Right) const
   {
      return std::less<V::value_type>()(_Left[index], _Right[index]);


         Is there any magic using std::less<> here?
         why not just "return _Left[index] < _Right[index];" ?

         name starting with underscore followed by a capital letter is
reserved for implementation usage.

   }
};


why inherit from std::less? which introduces a hiding of operator() in
std::less

maybe std::binary_function<V, V, bool> is better.

typedef std::vector<std::vector<int> > Array2D;
Array2D samples; // passed in parameter, known to be non-empty

const unsigned sensorIndex = 1;
typedef VectorElementLess<Array2D::value_type, sensorIndex> SensorLess;

// find the sample with the maximum sensor reading
std::vector<int> maxSensor = *std::max_element(samples.begin(), samples.end
(), SensorLess());


maybe keep using an iterator as the index found is better

--
Best Regards
Barry

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