Is there a convenient way to wrap std::pair as a new type?

Question

Often times I find myself using std::pair to define logical groupings of two related quantities as function arguments/return values. Some examples: row/col, tag/value, etc.

Answer 1

Unfortunately strong typedefs will not make it into C++0x, it has been given the classification of Not ready for C++0x, but open to resubmit in future.