Agree. You can make it look like it's in boost:: with a using-directive. ^^^^^^^^^
It works, thank you for teaching me C++! I found this in http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/swap/boost/utility/swap.hpp: namespace boost { namespace swap_adl_barrier { template<class T> void swap(T& left, T& right) { ::boost_swap_impl::swap_impl(left, right); } } using swap_adl_barrier::swap; } Wrong as well? Arno -- Dr. Arno Schoedl · aschoedl@think-cell.com Technical Director think-cell Software GmbH · Invalidenstr. 34 · 10115 Berlin, Germany http://www.think-cell.com · phone +49-30-666473-10 · toll-free (US) +1-800-891-8091 Directors: Dr. Markus Hannebauer, Dr. Arno Schoedl · Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 85229