Hi - I seem to have run into a regression with boost::variant from 1.48 to 1.53. With C++11 enabled, using g++, the following code seems to confuse variant's constructor selection machinery: if you look at the line after #ifndef WAR, the implicit conversion isn't happening, and so boost::variant attempts to convert construct from extract to A or B. It should instead copy construct from the output of extract's implicit conversion to my_variant. If I force an explicit conversion, this problem doesn't occur. If I don't enable c++11, this problem doesn't occur. With Boost 1.48, this problem doesn't occur. Any advice from the list as to why this behavior changed? Thanks, bryan #include //A simplified wrapper template<typename T> struct wrap { T t; wrap(T& _t) : t(_t) {} operator T() const { return t; } T force() const { return t; } }; struct A{}; struct B{}; typedef boost::variant my_variant; int main() { A a; my_variant x(a); #ifndef WAR my_variant y = wrap(x); #else my_variant y = wrap(x).force(); #endif } And the error: /home/bcatanzaro/boost_1_53_0/boost/variant/variant.hpp:1574:9: error: no matching function for call to ‘boost::variant::initializer::initialize(void*, std::remove_reference >&>::type)’