diff --git a/cpp11test/DESCRIPTION b/cpp11test/DESCRIPTION
index d1d05665..70c5649f 100644
--- a/cpp11test/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/cpp11test/DESCRIPTION
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ Suggests:
     xml2
 LazyData: true
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
-RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
diff --git a/inst/include/cpp11/r_vector.hpp b/inst/include/cpp11/r_vector.hpp
index 576f4fe6..601f5d5b 100644
--- a/inst/include/cpp11/r_vector.hpp
+++ b/inst/include/cpp11/r_vector.hpp
@@ -1392,18 +1392,14 @@ inline SEXP r_vector<T>::resize_names(SEXP x, R_xlen_t size) {
 
 }  // namespace writable
 
-// TODO: is there a better condition we could use, e.g. assert something true
-// rather than three things false?
-template <typename C, typename T>
-using is_container_but_not_sexp_or_string = typename std::enable_if<
+// Ensure that C is not constructible from SEXP, and neither C nor T is a std::string
+template <typename C, typename T = typename std::decay<C>::type::value_type>
+typename std::enable_if<
     !std::is_constructible<C, SEXP>::value &&
         !std::is_same<typename std::decay<C>::type, std::string>::value &&
         !std::is_same<typename std::decay<T>::type, std::string>::value,
-    typename std::decay<C>::type>::type;
-
-template <typename C, typename T = typename std::decay<C>::type::value_type>
-// typename T = typename C::value_type>
-is_container_but_not_sexp_or_string<C, T> as_cpp(SEXP from) {
+    C>::type
+as_cpp(SEXP from) {
   auto obj = cpp11::r_vector<T>(from);
   return {obj.begin(), obj.end()};
 }