From -2459915607056334785 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,d29d3f379031bbbd,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Enno Rehling Subject: Re: Why does for_each in STL use function pointer as paramter? Date: 1997/01/16 Message-ID: <32DE0593.3BFB@uni-paderborn.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 210253833 references: x-original-date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:40:20 +0100 organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany x-auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ newsgroups: comp.std.c++ originator: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com x-mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) angelo wrote: > > As far as I know , all generic algrithms in STL take function objects > as parameter except "for_each". Why? I think function objects are more > powerful than function pointers, since you can pass some other > paramters in the objects' constructors. for_each, too takes a function onject - there's no such thing as passing function pointers in the STL, as far as I know. You'd have a strange implementation if this were so. Enno email: enno@uni-paderborn.de WWW: http://pbhrzs0.uni-paderborn.de/~q09960/public/ phone: Int+ 49 5251-760796 smail: Kilianstr. 129a 33098 Paderborn / Germany --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles: Try just posting with your newsreader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu comp.std.c++ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/faq.html Moderation policy: http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/policy.html Comments? mailto:std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu ]