STL bind1st counterpart for unary function

From: Fred Ma (fma_at_doe.carleton.ca)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: 5 Feb 2004 09:33:46 GMT

Hello,

I have a random generator that takes a scaling factor as an
argument. Since it takes one argument, it is not a
generator in the sense defined by SGI's online STL
documentation. I'd like to use this as a generator in the
STL algorithm "generate". I know I have to change random
generator from its current implementation to make it
adaptable. But unlike the bind1st adapter, there isn't any
premade function adapter that reduces the arity of a unary
function by binding the argument to a constant. So I can't
use it in the STL generate algorithm without writing a
wrapper. It's not a big deal, but it's a bit of a waste to
write a wrapper just to fix the argument of the generator to
one constant value, and just to avoid rolling my own loop to
fill a container with random numbers. Of course I will
write my own one-line loop, but just out pedagogical
curiosity, is there a _simple_ way to use the STL generate
algorithm in this case, using only standardized libraries?

Fred 

-- 
Fred Ma
Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6

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