Boost Bind on MSVC 7.1

The following example is a very simple, and contrived, example that demonstrates the problem I'm seeing. This fails to compile with 'term does not evaluate to a function taking 1 arguments'. Is this a problem with bind on MSVC 7.1, or have I just forgotton how to use it/what it can do. - Dale. #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <boost/bind.hpp> int my_function(std::string const& value) { return static_cast<int>(value.length()); } int main() { std::string my_string("hello world!"); std::cout << boost::bind<int>(_1, my_string)(my_function); }