Hello. I'm a C++ developer, who is learning STL recently, and loving it :) I've encountered Boost library, which seems to extending STL funcationality a lot :) I've also created a sampel template for usage in my company, and I would like to get comments about it: is this code ok, exception safe, somebody did it better things like that. In my projects I'm often using structures like map<T1, T2 *>, e.g. map<int, Point *> or map<string, Person*> or something like this. So, often I want to do something like that: map<int, Point *> my_map; map<int, Point *>::iterator it; /* .. */ for( it=my_map.begin();it!=my_map.end();++it ) { it->second->Reset(); //sets x,y to 0,0 } example may be stupid, but shows what I'm trying to explain. To improve it I've created a template (given below), so I ca use it like that: for_each( my_map.begin(), my_map.end(), map_fun( &Point::Reset ) ); Which i think is much better. My template is as follows (style is kept from GCC includes, so it may be not as readable as it could be :) template <class _Ret, class _Tp> class map_fun_t : public unary_function<_Tp*,_Ret> { public: explicit map_fun_t(_Ret (_Tp::*__pf)()) : _M_f(__pf) {} template< class _Mp> _Ret operator()(_Mp &__p) const { return ((__p.second)->*_M_f)(); } private: _Ret (_Tp::*_M_f)(); }; template <class _Ret, class _Tp> inline map_fun_t<_Ret,_Tp> map_fun(_Ret (_Tp::*__f)()) { return map_fun_t<_Ret,_Tp>(__f); } What do you think about it? Has it any flaws? Somebody done it already? Is it usable for anyone except me? :) Thanks in advance. -- Best regards from Kamil Burzynski Senior Design Engineer Advanced Digital Broadcast Poland, LTD. - - "Yes, I'm criminal. My crime is that of curiosity."