From: martinfrompi@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:36:53 PM UTC, Edward Diener wrote:   
   > Let me suggest you give up your 10 year old or more compiler (I am   
   > guessing VC6)   
      
   VC2003 would fit the description.   
      
   > for something more modern. In a modern compiler you   
   > could use std::function and std::bind, both of which came out of   
   > boost::function and boost::bind respectively.   
      
   Ha! I guess this is a legacy code base.  Shifting from one compiler   
   version to another is an *expensive* operation.  There will probably   
   be a number of compilation errors that need fixing (if the code   
   uses /werror and /w4, then there will probably be a HUGE number of   
   these).   
      
   More worryingly, the code almost certainly invokes some undefined   
   behaviour somewhere, but this happened to work with the old   
   compiler.  A new compiler may well make it stop working.  Senior   
   management (correctly) are unlikely to pay for these costs, unless   
   there are some significant benefits to go with them.   
      
   std::function is unlikely to cut it.   
      
      
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