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Boost 1.72.0 Library Documentation - Function objects and higher-order programming

Function objects and higher-order programming

Bind

boost::bind is a generalization of the standard functions std::bind1st and std::bind2nd. It supports arbitrary function objects, functions, function pointers, and member function pointers, and is able to bind any argument to a specific value or route input arguments into arbitrary positions.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.25.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Container Hash

An STL-compatible hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types.

Author(s)
Daniel James
First Release
1.33.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Function

Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks.

Author(s)
Doug Gregor
First Release
1.23.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming, Programming Interfaces
Functional

The Boost.Function library contains a family of class templates that are function object wrappers.

Author(s)
Mark Rodgers
First Release
1.16.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Functional/Factory

Function object templates for dynamic and static object creation

Author(s)
Glen Fernandes and Tobias Schwinger
First Release
1.43.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Functional/Forward

Adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments

Author(s)
Tobias Schwinger
First Release
1.43.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Functional/Overloaded Function

Overload different functions into a single function object.

Author(s)
Lorenzo Caminiti
First Release
1.50.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
HOF

Higher-order functions for C++

Author(s)
Paul Fultz II
First Release
1.67.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming, Template Metaprogramming
Lambda

Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.

Author(s)
Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell
First Release
1.28.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Local Function

Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed.

Author(s)
Lorenzo Caminiti
First Release
1.50.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Member Function

Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions.

Author(s)
Peter Dimov
First Release
1.25.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Phoenix

Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden, Thomas Heller and John Fletcher
First Release
1.47.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Ref

A utility library for passing references to generic functions.

Author(s)
Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor and Dave Abrahams
First Release
1.25.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Result Of

Determines the type of a function call expression.

Author(s)
 
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming
Signals2

Managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2).

Author(s)
Frank Mori Hess
First Release
1.39.0
Categories
Function objects and higher-order programming, Patterns and Idioms
Utility

Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom.

Author(s)
Dave Abrahams and others
First Release
1.13.0
Categories
Algorithms, Function objects and higher-order programming, Memory, Miscellaneous, Patterns and Idioms