Hi all, I have a problem involving Boost Lambda and shared_ptr. Although this has come up before, my problem is a little different. Essentially, I have classes derived from bases that contain pure virtuals. These are stored in STL containers as shared_ptrs (to the base) and to avoid having to write all those pesky functions/functors for STL algorithms, it would be nice to use Lambda instead. The following is similar to the sort of code I'm writing: class shape { public: virtual void draw(const int)=0; }; class rectangle : public shape { public: virtual void draw(const int x){std::cout << "rectangle::draw() with x = " << x << "\n";} }; class circle : public shape { public: virtual void draw(const int x) {std::cout << "circle::draw() with x = " << x << "\n";} }; vector< shared_ptr<shape> > shapes; // assume I stick stuff into shapes... for_each(shapes.begin(), shapes.end(), bind(&shape::draw, _1, 2)); The last statement fails under VC++ 2008 with error C2665: 'boost::lambda::function_adaptor<Func>::apply' : none of the 2 overloads could convert all the argument types This works if you use boost::bind instead of the lambda bind. The rest of the error message (too lengthy to list) seems to be telling me that there is an ambiguity between the two following types: Result boost::lambda::function_adaptor<Func>::apply<RET,A3>(Result (__thiscall shape::* )(Arg1),Object *,A1 &) Result boost::lambda::function_adaptor<Func>::apply<RET,A3>(Result (__thiscall shape::* )(Arg1),Object &,A1 &) I really could use a solution to this since it's stopping me from using lambda more often. Thanks in advance, Brian Martin