On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, David Abrahams wrote:

Anders Sundman writes:

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Hi all!

I'm using the lambda library to compute the sum of squared differences, but I have encountered a puzzling problem. I would really appreciate if someone could explain it to me.

This doesn't compile:

std::inner_product(i1, i1+x, i2, 0.0, (_1 + _2), (_1*_1)(_1 - _2));

however, this does:

std::inner_product(i1, i1+x, i2, 0.0, std::plus<double>(), (_1*_1)(_1 - _2)); ^^^^^^^^ ^

Doesn't seem right. Do you really mean to invoke the function call operator on the result of _1*_1 ??

I might be missing something obvious, but i seems right to me. I'm trying to compute: sum((i1[i] - i2[i])^2). (_1*_1)(_1 - _2) computes the (i1[i] - i2[i])^2 part, and it seems to work fine. Then the first binary operator is applied to the result, so I think it's what I want. Here is a short program that demonstrates the problem: #include <iostream> #include <numeric> #include using namespace boost::lambda; int main(void) { double x1[] = {2.0, 1.0, 0.0, 3.0, 2.0}; double x2[] = {1.0, 2.0, 0.0, 1.0, -2.0}; /* double ssd = std::inner_product(x1, x1+5, x2, 0.0, std::plus<double>(), (_1*_1)(_1 - _2)); */ double ssd = std::inner_product(x1, x1+5, x2, 0.0, (_1 + _2), (_1*_1)(_1 - _2)); std::cout << "ssd: " << ssd << std::endl; return 0; } --- Best regards Anders Sundman