The following patch clears the failures with the Borland compiler for the program options lib. Is this OK to commit or was there a specific reason why those functions were declared outside the class body? It shouldn't make any difference either which way, but you never know :-) While we're at it: the test program convert_test.cpp appears not to build with any compiler, and isn't currently being built by our test matrix? Regards, John. Index: boost/program_options/variables_map.hpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/boost/boost/boost/program_options/variables_map.hpp,v retrieving revision 1.5.6.5 diff -u -r1.5.6.5 variables_map.hpp --- boost/program_options/variables_map.hpp 6 Jun 2006 14:30:28 -00001.5.6.5 +++ boost/program_options/variables_map.hpp 18 Oct 2006 11:39:29 -0000 @@ -57,10 +57,15 @@ /** If stored value if of type T, returns that value. Otherwise, throws boost::bad_any_cast exception. */ - template<class T> const T& as() const; - - /** @overload */ - template<class T> T& as(); + template<class T> + const T& as() const { + return boost::any_cast<const T&>(v); + } + // overload: + template<class T> + T& as() { + return boost::any_cast<T&>(v); + } /// Returns true if no value is stored. bool empty() const; @@ -185,18 +190,6 @@ return v; } - - template<class T> - const T& - variable_value::as() const { - return boost::any_cast<const T&>(v); - } - - template<class T> - T& - variable_value::as() { - return boost::any_cast<T&>(v); - } }} #endif