Having been tainted by Linq, I'm reluctant to give it up. However, for some things I just need to use C++.
The real strength of linq as a linq-consumer (i.e. to me) lies not in expression trees (which are complex to manipulate), but the ease with which I can mix and match various functions. Do the equivalents of .Where, .Select and .SelectMany, .Skip and .Take and .Concat exist for C++-style iterators?
These would be extremely handy for all sorts of common code I write.
I don't care about LINQ-specifics, the key issue here is to be able to express algorithms at a higher level, not for C++ code to look like C# 3.0. I'd like to be able to express "the result is formed by the concatenation first n elements of each sequence" and then reuse such an expression wherever a new sequence is required - without needed to manually (and greedily) instantiate intermediates.