I need to traverse a proto tree from right to left so that given the statement: (a, b, c) = expr; I can assign in order c then b and lastly a. A fragment that does the order a,b,c (and work, but not very efficiently, which is why I want to go the other way) is: template<typename E> struct assign_aux { assign_aux (const E& rhs) : m_rhs (rhs) {} typedef int result_type; template<typename T> int operator()(const T& t, int offset) const { int next_offset = offset - actual_width_transform () (t); int value = systemc_eval (m_rhs.range (offset,next_offset+1)); const_cast(t) = value; return next_offset; } const E& m_rhs; }; template <typename E> struct assign { template<typename RHS> const E& doit (const E& e, const RHS& rhs) { int width = actual_width_transform () (e); fusion::fold(proto::flatten (const_cast(e)), width-1, assign_aux<RHS> (rhs)); return e; } }; template<typename E> const systemc_expression& operator = (const E& e) const { BOOST_MPL_ASSERT ((proto::matches)); return assign().doit (*this, e); return *this; } I've tried to use fusion::reverse_view to invert the fusion sequence, but failed. I also suspect that the resulting code wouldn't be as good as it could be, which in my application is critical. So I looked at alternatives and tried proto::reverse_fold_tree. Here's my attempt: struct assign_terminal : proto::callable { typedef int result_type; template int operator () (T& t, O o, const R& r) const { int width = actual_width_transform () (t); const_cast(t) = r.range (1,0); return o+width; } }; template <typename E> struct assign { template<typename RHS> const E& doit (const E& e, const RHS& rhs) { proto::reverse_fold_tree<_, int() , assign_terminal (_, proto::_state, proto::_data)>() (e, rhs); return e; } }; template<typename E> const systemc_expression& operator = (const E& e) const { BOOST_MPL_ASSERT ((proto::matches)); return assign().doit (*this, e); return *this; } But this doesn't seem to pass the data (rhs) to assign_terminal::operator () (expr, state, data). There're really very few examples on how to use proto::fold_tree and even fewer using the data parameter, so I don't have much to go on. Would anybody whose name is Eric tell me why I'm this stupid? TIA, Maurizio