I am struggling to try to get bind/function working like I want. Some code first though: 1. We have a POD object. namespace POD{ class POD{};} 2. We have another class that wants to do something with a POD*. namespace Alpha{ class MethodsInHere{ void doesSomething(POD::POD* arg0){} };} 3. We have a third class, essentially a function handler, that has a boost::function reference whose signature matches the method in #2, and a constructor which wants to set the reference. namespace EventHandler{ class EventHandler{ public: EventHandler(boost::function<void (POD::POD*)>& function): assign_to_me(function){} boost::function<void (POD::POD*)>& assign_to_me; };} 4. Finally, we have an initialization class. This class wants to instantiate the EventHandler object, and to do so needs to bind the method in #2 to pass in as an argument. POD::POD* instance = new POD::POD(); Alpha::MethodsInHere mih; EventHandler eh(boost::bind(&Alpha::MethodsInHere::doesSomething, ????, _1)) -------- My question is basically if this is possible. I was having a ton of trouble getting this to work, and after digging through some docs it seems like the '?????' in line of code in #4 needs to be a reference to eh . . . which isn't constructed yet. If I'm wrong, please tell me how to construct this bind properly. If I'm right, what sort of workaround could solve this?