_____ From: Sergey Sadovnikov [mailto:flex_ferrum@artberg.ru] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:02 PM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost and std collisons in c++0x MF> If you want to use boost, use boost::. If you want to use the STD MF> library, use std::. Perfectly! What you can say about following pieces of code: std::vector<std::shared_ptr<SomeClass>> vec; std::for_each(vec.begin(), vec.end(), std::bind(&std::shared_ptr<SomeClass>::get, std::placeholders::_1, std::bind(&SomeClass::foo, std::placeholders::_1, 10))); and vector<shared_ptr<SomeClass>> vec; for_each(vec.begin(), vec.end(), bind(&shared_ptr<SomeClass>::get, _1, bind(&SomeClass::foo, _1, 10))); Here's what I do, for every class that's put in shared_ptr's (I'm very disciplined in this way): // SomeClassFwd.h: class SomeClass; typedef std::shared_ptr<SomeClass> SomeClassPtr; typedef std::vector<SomeClassPtr> SomeClassCollection; Now, your code becomes: SomeClassCollection vec; std::for_each(vec.begin(), vec.end(), std::bind(&SomeClassPtr::get, std::placeholders::_1, std::bind(&SomeClass::foo, std::placeholders::_1, 10))); I would agree C++ can be very verbose. Using typedef can limit this a lot though. /Daniel Lidström