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> until now I've usually written my own template to do this:
>
>
> template<typename T>
> struct push_back_container:T
> { push_back_container &_push_back(const typename T::value_type &_r)
> { push_back(_r);
> return *this;
> }
> };
>
> one can use this like this:
>
> push_back_container<std::vector<something>
> >()._push_back(something1)._push_back(_something2)
>
> Is there some more elegant way to do this?

Been there, and had the same issues.  I've always wondered why std::vector gives you so many ways to assign values to it, but so few to append items, as personally I want to append items much more often than totally change a vector's contents.  For what you want to do there is also a standard assign-with-back-inserter whatchamacallit :

include vector
include algorithm // assign
include iterator    // back_inserter

std::copy(
   source.begin(), source.end(),
   std::back_inserter( targetSequenceWithpush_back_memberFn )
);