Create string on the fly just in one line

We often make use of std::stringstream to convert values of various types into a single std::string. For example, see this:

std::stringstream ss;
ss << 25 << " is greater than " << 5;
std::string s = ss.str(); //s => "25 is greater than 5"

Paul (at stackoverflow) was trying to think of a clever way to concatenate various things into a single string without having to use an ostringstream explicitly. He came up with a macro which he didn't like though.

Elegant ways to tokenize strings

Last night I posted a solution at stackoverflow. The question was : what is the right way to split a string into a vector of strings. Delimiter is space or comma.

This is what I first came up with, for space separated string: