Re: function object for [] and *

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:39:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<53c2d482-7d70-424e-9bff-e1b30f6c2534@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 23, 10:34 pm, Noah Roberts <u...@example.net> wrote:

AnonMail2...@gmail.com wrote:

On Jun 23, 2:22 pm, Rares Vernica <ra...@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

I need help to replace the following code:

  int *idx; //...
  for (int i = 0; i < n; i++, ++out)
    out = in[idx[i]];

with something like:

  int *idx; //...
  std::transform(idx, idx + n, out, ...);

I think the operator for transform should look something like:

    __gnu_cxx::compose1(in[], *idx)

So, I think, I need a function object to apply the []
operator to "in", given an int and another one to apply the
* operator to each element in "idx".


Here's a first cut assuming the contents of in and out are
doubles. If they're not, change accordingly...

struct Functor
{
  std::vector<double> const & m_in;

  // constructor
  Functor (std::vector<double> const & in) : m_in (in)
  {}

  // functor operator
  double operator () (int i) const
  {
    return in [i];
  }
}

std::transform (idx, idx + n, out, Functor (in));

Make sure out has enough room in out or use std::back_inserter (out).


You might also try something like so (untested):

std::transform(idx, idx+n, out, boost::bind(&in_type::operator[], in, _1)=

);

Which won't work if in_type is a C style array (or a pointer).
(Otherwise, a simple, direct application of boost::bind is still
readable enough that I would consider it more or less
acceptable. Although I don't see anything wrong with the
original code, and I'd probably wait until we get lambda
expressions to upgrade it.)

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