I'd like to make it easy to do a BOOST_FOREACH for every value in an enumeration. I tried enum E { E_First, ⋯ , E_Last }; boost::counting_range(E_First, E_Last) but got compiler template barf.

Can someone suggest a good way to do this?

I've accomplished this using a combination of Boost.Range and Boost.Phoenix, as follows: template <typename EnumT> auto enum_range(EnumT first, EnumT last) { using boost::counting_range; using boost::adaptors::transformed; using boost::phoenix::static_cast_; using boost::phoenix::arg_names::arg1; return counting_range((int)first, (int)last) | transformed(static_cast_<EnumT>(arg1)); } Then the usage is: BOOST_FOREACH(E e, enum_range(E_First, E_Last)) ... I've omitted the return type of the enum_range function above. If you use C++11, you can get the compiler to deduce it using decltype and late-specified return types (this is what I do), otherwise you can look up the documentation of the various Boost constructs involved and write down the return type directly (it'll be boost::transformed_range< /* something involving phoenix::static_cast_ */, /* something involving counting_range */>). Hope that helps! Regards, Nate