"Pavel Vozenilek" <pavel_vozenilek@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cr6ga4 | Attached is file which works on VC6 / Intel 7 / BCB6.4. | Only tiny changes were needed. Thanks. | This boost::make_pair would be very useful. ok, it was not meant as a proposal, but just as an example of where it would be useful. | Questions: | | - maybe other name than decayed could be found | | - isn't parameter passing suboptimal for e.g. | boost::make_pair(0, 0)? by suboptimal you mean performance-wise? | - following compiles: | | struct ABC { | explicit ABC(int) {} | }; | std::pair<ABC, ABC> p5 = boost::make_pair(1, 2); | std::pair<ABC, ABC> p5 = std::make_pair(1, 2); // also compiles | | Maybe the boost::make_pair could be coded | somehow to disable this behavior (ABC constructor | is explicit). maybe, I do think a new make_pair() should be backwards compatible. -Thorsten