STL-pair-like triplet class - do I roll my own?

Question

I want to use a triplet class, as similar as possible to std::pair. STL doesn\'t seem to have one. I don\'t want to use something too heavy, like Boost. Is there some useful

Answer 1

No, don't roll your own. Instead, take a look at std::tuple - it's a generalization of std::pair. So here's a value-initialized triple of ints:

std::tuple triple;

If you want, you can have a type alias for triples only:

template
using triple = std::tuple;