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"Brian Braatz" writes:

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I can always pass in a functor, but what I really want for Christmas is to be able to

Tyepdef MyClass MyNewClass;

This doesn't work because bind returns an actual OBJECT instead of a type. (intuitively - it would be cool if I could say bind(...)::Type which would give me the TYPE of the generated functor)

SO that led me to be up until 3 am reading about mpl::lambda. I am still trying to determine if THAT can be used in place, but the dots are not connecting for me yet.

Any suggestions or directions pointed GREATLY appreciated.

[Dave Abrahams Writes:]

You want "typeof," a mythical operator not yet in the C++ language -- but many implementations support some form of it as an extension. There's a prototype typeof library in the Sandbox files area now, by Arkadiy Vertleyb and others. Check it out. I suggest you browse the recent thread on typeof in boost-devel as well.

[Brian Braatz Writes:] As always THANK YOU Dave What about the boost\Lambda.bind vs MPL bind?. Is there a way to write the Tyepdef MyClass