Ha! I was going to post a Perl 6 version of this to show how much shorter it is when you don't go through all the rigamarole, but of course you remind us that

Ha! I was going to post a Perl 6 version of this to show how much shorter it is when you don't go through all the rigamarole, but of course you remind us that it's that short in C++ if you do it in a sensible manner. Bravo.