In my code, I use variants with only pointers type as bounded types. Mainly a plain pointer to a type and one or more smart pointers to this same type. Would a derived variant that would be dereferencable if all of it's bounded type also are of interest for Boost.Variant library? Would anyone be willing to implement it? (i.e. should I dive in the code and try to do it myself?) Variantly, Nowhere man -- nowhere.man@levallois.eu.org OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A