Re: bind1st fails to compile when argument type is a constant reference

[Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj at stegny dot 2a dot pl>]

Użytkownik Jonathan Wakely napisał:
> 2011/11/21 Krzysztof Żelechowski:
> > It would be awesome if you could also have a look at this section of 
> > the manual:
> > >     Chapter 9. Functors
> > >
> > > If you don't know what functors are, you're not alone. Many people get
> > > slightly the wrong idea. In the interest of not reinventing the wheel, we
> > > will refer you to the introduction to the functor concept written by SGI as
> > > part of their STL, in their http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/functors.html
> > > <http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/functors.html>.
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > That site does not mention general binding at all.
> Because it was written many years ago.
>
> I did start writing an addition to that chapter of the manual, but
> decided it was a waste of time.  The docs for Boost.Bind,
> Boost.Function and Boost.MemFn do a pretty good job of describing
> those components already.
So I would suggest adding just a note with hyperlinks to Boost:

Note: Some of the functionality described in the SGI documentation is 
obsolete and superseded with general utilities |bind|, |function| and 
|mem_fn| respectively.  The respective items are available in namespace 
std or std::tr1, depending on the chosen language version.
> I decided I could spend my weekend writing documentation that would
> probably be insufficient and not as good as e.g. "Beyond the C++
> Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost" by Bjorn Karlsson, or "The
> C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference" by Pete
> Becker, or I could spend it actually implementing those features and
> fixing bugs so people can use them not just read about them.  I chose
> the latter.
>
> Patches welcome.
I am afraid I cannot create a regular patch at present because it would 
require compiling GNU C++ myself; I still have not solved the problems 
of missing sources reported by Doxygen and I cannot debug the build at 
the build service that deeply.

Thanks,
Chris