12 Aug
2005
12 Aug
'05
8:46 p.m.
David Abrahams wrote:
Is it really true that I can write
bind(f, _1) > _2
but can't write
_1 > _2
??
I can't imagine a good reason for that restriction, but I don't see any indication that the latter is supported in the docs.
A limitation of the current implementation. On some compilers, the placeholders are function pointers and _1 > _2 can't be overloaded. There's no other technical reason that prevents _1 > _2 (or _1 > 0) from working; it'd fall out of the specification.