I think I've found either a bug in zip_view with gcc or a bug in the zip_view docs. If I try to use a zip_view<> in which the sequences are not all of the same length, the compiler goes into "infinite" recursion instantiating at<> templates until it hits the instantiation limit. According to the MPL reference manual, the size<> of the sequence should be the minimum of the size<>es of all the participating sequences. At first I thought this was only a problem when one of the sequences is empty but I was able to reproduce it with populated sequences of varying length. Just two is enough to expose it. This is a problem with gcc 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4. I can work around the problem by using iterator_range<> and copy<> to truncate the sequences before feeding them to zip_view<>. What's supposed to happen in this case? -Dave