RE: [Boost-Users] Possible interest in select_by_predicate?

(1) For all cases where an STL predicate "pred" will suffice, e.g. your example using std::greater<>, is there any case where std::max_element(b, e, pred) would not also perform the job?

Not that I can see. The max_element/min_element STL functions have somehow slipped my knowledge thus far, and I feel like a complete chump now in duplicating their functionality. Thanks for pointing out the obvious, and I'll go crawl back in my hole. -Jonathan