Hi,
I've just tried to use the header named above, from boost sandbox. However,
there's a serious problem with it. It includes another one, which
declares find_if algorithm in namespace boost, and that causes ambiguity with
std::find_if. The following code piece illustrates it

#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>

namespace boost {

    struct truth_teller {
        template<class T>
        bool operator()(const T&) { return true; }
    };

    template <typename Iterator, typename Predicate>
    Iterator find_if(Iterator first, Iterator last, Predicate pred) {
    }

    void do_the_thing(std::vector<int>& t) {
        std::remove_if(t.begin(), t.end(), truth_teller());
    }
}

The situation is that implementation of std::remove_if calls find_if
(not std::find_if). Thanks to argument-dependent lookup (the predicate
is from boost namespace), boost::find_if is found, and ambiguity arises.
(This all happens with g++ 3.2).

So, what is it? A bug in standard library? A problem with the standard? Or,
providing another find_if in namespace boost can never work?

- Volodya






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