I don't mean to come off like a hard case, and I may well be wrong but... This whole line of questioning has that "homework assignment" smell to it. The initial question was _highly_ school-related:
I need to have some template doing the jobs of an ordinary BST (Binary Search Tree). Nothing that fancy, but something at the level we all have been educated in CS1/FCS1, or similar courses. Does boosts repository contain such an object?
The utter lack of background detail leads me to believe that this is just a toy problem... a homework assignment. And then there's the yahoo email address... most proffesional programmers have @mybusiness addresses, though that doesn't mean everyone here is a proffesional. Oh, and the final bit of oddness:
Why don't I write it myself? Simply, because I want to optimise the time!
How is waiting a week or so for some mailing list to hand you an answer "optimizing the time"? This has just been bothering me, I felt the need to speak out. If I'm wrong, then I offer my heartfelt appoligies. This may be what Mr. Hyslop was trying to dig at, I'm just not a patient or subtle person. And I don't mind appologizing for my mistakes (lots of practice, as you might imaging with this sort of behavior). --Mark Storer Software Engineer Cardiff Software #include <disclaimer> typdef std::disclaimer<Cardiff> Discard;