Peter Sommerlad, committee member and C++Now presenter who often proposes additions to fill in holes in the standard library, asked me: Are you aware of anybody who tried to provide a boost::operators style of automatically providing additional operators with a single base class that through SFINAE injects all possible operators based on the ones defined in the template parameter? This won't give you the control of the current boost::operators, but would be much easier to teach. For example struct Me : make_operators_for<Me>{ Me& operator+=(Me const&); // You get + bool operator<(Me const&) const; // You get all relops (<=> will make that obsolete) Me& operator++(); // you get postfix //etc. }; Today we have the facilities and compilers to make that happen. What do you think? Who should I ask? Anyone doing any work on operators or have any thoughts about updating boost::operators? --Beman