How Does Bind Fit with the Standard Library?

Conceptually, Bind is a generalization of the existing Standard Library functions bind1st and bind2nd, with additional functionality that allows for more sophisticated functional composition. It also alleviates the need to use adaptors for pointers to functions and pointers to class members, which saves coding and potential errors. Boost.Bind also covers some of the popular extensions to the C++ Standard Library, such as the SGI extensions compose1 and compose2, and also the select1st and select2nd functions. So, Bind does fit with the Standard Library, and it does so very well indeed. The need for such functionality is acknowledged, and at last in part addressed by the Standard Library, and also in popular extensions to the STL. Boost.Bind has been accepted for the upcoming Library Technical Report.