Unfortunately I must say that the pimpl_ptr library will not be part of Boost at this time. The results where decidedly against the library in the proposed form. A few points about the library where clear: * Many want to see a pimpl_ptr in Boost. * The proposed design was considered to not do enough towards addressing the handle-body idiom within C++. * Some of the ideas, the policies, where both liked and disliked. Which raised the specter of the lack of a policy pointer. Hopefully we will see this idiom addressed in some near future. Last, I must apologize for the late results. But I must thank Ronald for the gentle prodding :-) -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo