STL:invoking a member of an object not in the container

[Steven T. Hatton]

I have a std::vector<Vec3*> _vertices and an object BoundingBox _bbox. _bbox
has a member function called void expandBy(Vec3& v); I want to call
_bbox.expandBy on every member of _vertices. I know I can loop through and
do that. I also know I can create a function object and pass it. The
latter can be pretty slick, if I will be doing it a lot. It seems more
trouble than it's worth to do it for only one function in one class.
AFAIK, there is no way to use things such as mem_fun to do that. They
apply to the objects in the container being iterated over by the STL
algorithm.

Is there a way to accomplish what I want with the STL algorithms? Boost?
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[Victor Bazarov]

Steven T. Hatton wrote:

I have a std::vector<Vec3*> _vertices and an object BoundingBox _bbox. _bbox
has a member function called void expandBy(Vec3& v); I want to call
_bbox.expandBy on every member of _vertices. I know I can loop through and
do that. I also know I can create a function object and pass it. The
latter can be pretty slick, if I will be doing it a lot. It seems more
trouble than it's worth to do it for only one function in one class.
AFAIK, there is no way to use things such as mem_fun to do that. They
apply to the objects in the container being iterated over by the STL
algorithm.

Is there a way to accomplish what I want with the STL algorithms? Boost?

Actually, using 'bind1st' and 'mem_fun' should be enough, no need for
Boost. I can never remember the right order of things, takes me a couple
of tries to get it right, but the direction is something like

BoundingBox _bbox;
for_each(_vertices.begin(), _vertices.end(),
bind1st(mem_fun(&BoundingBox::expandBy), &_bbox));

V