Re: [Boost-users] bind for_each and a range of functors

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:

With boost::bind, which doesn't evaluate its first argument, you'll need to use apply<>, as explained in

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/bind/bind.html#nested_binds

I understand the "how" of that, but not the "why". Why does bind not evaluate if first argument? Thanks - Rob.