Hello, during the past years, I stumbled across various bugs in template meta-programms and found useful to have a small tools that is able to display at runtime the exact type of a given object or template type as a basic std::string in code fragments like : template<class T, template<class,class> class X > struct { static inline DoSomething( T const & x) { // soem code std::cout << "Currently instanciating : " << identify< X<T,typename T::type> >::Name() << std::endl; } }; Basically this small library replace typeid and its non-standard name() method by a meta-programmed class (identify) which is able to handle various classic types (being template or not themselves). I was wondering if such a library could be of interest and be submitted as a possible addition to Boost or if this scope (type name display) was too mundane. If the former, I'll be glad to post some more material and discuss a possible rationale. Regards -- Joel FALCOU Research Engineer @ Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale Université PARIS SUD XI France