Re: [Boost-users] Re: Lambda question

31 Mar 2004

      On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, David Abrahams wrote:
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Anders Sundman  writes:
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Hi all!
I'm using the lambda library to compute the sum of squared
differences, but I have encountered a puzzling problem. I would
really appreciate if someone could explain it to me.
This doesn't compile:
std::inner_product(i1, i1+x, i2, 0.0,
         (_1 + _2), (_1*_1)(_1 - _2));
however, this does:
std::inner_product(i1, i1+x, i2, 0.0,
         std::plus<double>(), (_1*_1)(_1 - _2));
                                ^^^^^^^^       ^
Doesn't seem right.  Do you really mean to invoke the function call
operator on the result of _1*_1  ??
I might be missing something obvious, but i seems right to me. I'm
trying to compute: sum((i1[i] - i2[i])^2). (_1*_1)(_1 - _2) computes
the (i1[i] - i2[i])^2 part, and it seems to work fine. Then the first
binary operator is applied to the result, so I think it's what I
want.

Here is a short program that demonstrates the problem:

#include <iostream>
#include <numeric>
#include 

using namespace boost::lambda;

int main(void) {
  double x1[] = {2.0, 1.0, 0.0, 3.0, 2.0};
  double x2[] = {1.0, 2.0, 0.0, 1.0, -2.0};

  /*
  double ssd = std::inner_product(x1, x1+5, x2, 0.0,
				  std::plus<double>(),
				  (_1*_1)(_1 - _2));
  */

  double ssd = std::inner_product(x1, x1+5, x2, 0.0,
				  (_1 + _2),
				  (_1*_1)(_1 - _2));

  std::cout << "ssd: " << ssd << std::endl;
  return 0;
}

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Best regards
Anders Sundman