Work-around for missing "move-capture" syntax in C++0x

From:
SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:56:38 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<18dafcc4-acb3-44e3-a555-36c39e460da6@k25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>
Hi!

This is not a question but more of an observation. As you might
already know, C++0x's lambda syntax only allows capturing by reference
and capturing by value (copying). And if I remember correctly, there
is no requirement for closure types to have a move constructor. I
already saw code examples involving lambdas and shared_ptr where
shared_ptr was only used because it wasn't possible to "move-capture"
a unique_ptr. But the std::bind facility is quite flexible with
respect to move-only types. With std::bind we can turn the following,
non-working code

    void foo() {
        unique_ptr<big> p (new big);
        // ... set up *p
        invoke_later([=]{ // <-- Oops! unique_ptr cannot be copied.
            // work on *p
        });
    }

into

    void foo() {
        unique_ptr<big> p (new big);
        // ... set up *p
        invoke_later(bind([](unique_ptr<big> const& p){
            // work on *p
        },move(p)));
    }

and have it work without the need for std::shared_ptr. This extends to
all other move-enabled types. For example, if you want to move a
string into a function object, you have to use std::bind for this
because C++0x doesn't offer a "move-capture" syntax. IMHO, it's a
shame that we have to do that. But at least this seems like a decent
work-around. (untested)

Cheers!
SG

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