But you can generate them with macros. The Boost preprocessor library can help a lot. At work we use kind of a hybrid approach. We have generator macros that

But you can generate them with macros. The Boost preprocessor library can help a lot. At work we use kind of a hybrid approach. We have generator macros that spit out named tuple classes that use a bunch of magic and template meta-programming. It should go without saying that the macro implementation is ugly and only a few people understand it very well, but we don't have to change them much any more, and the resulting named tuples are easy to use and generally work exactly as expected.