Re: [Boost-users] Question Regarding Boost 1.33.1 on MSVC.NET 2003

Wu Yinghui, Freddie wrote:

struct Operator { Operator &compute(Argument const &arg) { std::cout << arg.value_ << std::endl; return *this; } // Warning is gone if I declare the above function as: //Operator const &compute(Argument const &arg) const {...} };

int main() { typedef std::map OperatorMap;

OperatorMap ops; ops.insert(std::make_pair(0, Operator()));

Argument arg0 = { 1 };

std::for_each( ops.begin(), ops.end(), boost::bind(&Operator::compute, boost::bind(&OperatorMap::value_type::second, _1), boost::cref(arg0))); }

The problem is that boost::bind(&OperatorMap::value_type::second, _1) returns an Operator by value (in 1.33.1) or by const reference (in the current CVS). Since boost::bind needs to decide on a result type at bind time, and since it doesn't know whether the argument coming in from the _1 is const, it needs to conservatively assume const (Lambda doesn't have this limitation because it deduces the return type at call time). Use boost::bind(&OperatorMap::value_type::second, _1) to tell boost::bind to return a non-const reference.