I'm using an anonymous function (also known as lambda) as condition-thing for find_if. Obviously I could make a special class for it, but C++11 says that I could use an anonymous function for that. However, for the sake of readability and understanding, I decided to save the anonymous function in a local variable typed as function.
Unfortunately, I get the error:
no match for call to '(std::function<bool(Point*, Point*)>) (Point*&)'
note: candidate is:
note: _Res std::function<_Res(_ArgTypes ...)>::operator()(_ArgTypes ...) const [with _Res = bool; _ArgTypes = {Point*, Point*}]
note: candidate expects 2 arguments, 1 provided
What am i doing wrong? The so-called candidate is Greek to me. I tried to place the lambda directly in the find_if-invokement but that didn't work either.
#include <vector>
#include <function>
#include <algorithm>
using std::vector;
using std::function;
using std::find_if;
Point* Path::getPoint( int x, int y )
{
function<bool( Point*, Point* )> howToFind = [&x, &y]( Point* a, Point* b ) -> bool
{
if( a->getX() == x )
{
return true;
}
else if( a->getX() < b->getX() )
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
};
vector<Point*>::iterator foundYa = find_if( this->points.begin(), this->points.end(), howToFind );
if( foundYa == points.end() )
{
return nullptr;
}
return *foundYa;
}
function<bool( Point* )> howToFind = [&x, &y]( Point * a ) -> bool
{
if( a == nullptr )
{
return false;
}
else
{
if( a->getX() == x && a->getY() == y )
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
};
According to cppreference the function must be a UnaryPredicate
, i.e. it must take a single argument.
template< class InputIt, class UnaryPredicate >
InputIt find_if( InputIt first, InputIt last,
UnaryPredicate q );