Hi, Is there a reason why siganls aren't copyable? As far as I can tell signal base derives from noncopyable, but it references its implementation using shared_ptr. So I'm guessing in theory a signal is perfectly copyable. I must admit I came to this conclusion by briefly looking at the code, so I might be completely wrong. I want to store signals into a vector of function<void()>'s, together with bound arguments, to capture events and replay them later. Something similar to (simplified): class recorder { public: // this is the handler for some event // it is connected to another signal void some_event( int i) { events_.push_back( bind( ev, i ) ); } void replay() { vector< function<void()> >::const_iterator itr = events_.begin(); while ( itr != events_.end() ) { (*itr)(); ++itr; } } signal<void(int)> ev; private: vector< function<void()> > events_; }; recorder rec; // connect the recorder to the signals is uses ... // now replay the events rec.ev.connect( some_handler ); rec.replay(); The example above may no be entirely correct since I'm coding this directly without running it through a compiler, but I hope the intent is clear. If I remove the derivation from noncopyable from signal_base, a sigal can be assigned to a function, although I haven't tested it yet to see if it actually works (currently I do not have something I can start testing with). Is it safe to remove the noncopyable base class? If so can it be done in the next release of the boost distribution as well? Thanks in advance, Sven Van Echelpoel