On Wednesday 29 June 2005 09:34,Rob Stewart <stewart@sig.com> wrote:

What about putting them in a class template?  Then you could introduce typedefs to simplify the expressions the compiler must grok.

Rob, thanks for the reply. It stimulated a few ideas and I now have a solution. The actual problem (in uBLAS) was slightly more complex then the 'hard' function as the return value depended also on the template argument. With a few helper classes and a lot a PTS I can deduce the return value and provide apply functions. Now VC only has order overloaded template functions with single arguments and is happy. Thanks, Michael