On 5/4/2012 11:38 PM, Nathan Ridge wrote:

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I noticed that the comparator for a bimap can only be a Functor Type. It does not appear that I can pass a function object or a function pointer, as a STL Set would allow. Is this correct or did I miss something. For my application I could really use the ability to pass in comparator which is decided at runtime. Does anyone have any suggestions on a work around?

I'm not familiar with bimap, but is there a reason you can't wrap a function pointer (that can change at runtime) in a functor? Something like:

typedef int (*function_type)(int);

struct my_functor { function_type f; // change this at runtime

int operator()(int i) { return f(i); } };

Better yet is to delare function_type as: typedef boost::function function_type; and then you can set 'f' to any function type object before calling it.