id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
8729,"Library Submission, working with pointer containers",Charlie Page <charlie.page@…>,No-Maintainer,"Hey All,

I don't even know if this is the right place to submit this, but the website seems to indicate it is.

I was reading a book which seems to suggest that working with pointers in containers is harder then it should be.  A couple of templates can make it much easier.  For instance, to work with pointers(this template assumes that T is derived from unary_function, as std::set Compare types are, and long typenames are there to be an example to make this more understandable, final form could cut back:

template <typename T>
struct dereference {
    typename T::result_type operator()(const typename T::first_argument_type* arg1, const typename T::second_argument_type* arg2) const {
        return T()(*arg1, *arg2);
    }
};

e.x.: std::set<string*, Dereference<std::less<string> > > myset;


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