C++ preprocessor __VA_ARGS__ number of arguments

The accepted answer there doesn't work for me. I've tried with MSVC++ 10 and g++ 3.4.5.

I also crunched the example down into something smaller and started trying to get some information printed out to me in the error:

template < typename T >
struct print;

#include <boost/mpl/vector_c.hpp>

#define RSEQ_N 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0
#define ARG_N(_1,_2,_3,_4,_5,_6,_7,_8,_9,_10,N,...) N
#define ARG_N_(...) ARG_N(__VA_ARGS__)

#define XXX 5,RSEQ_N

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
  print< boost::mpl::vector_c<int, ARG_N_( XXX ) > > g; // ARG_N doesn't work either.
}

It appears to me that the argument for ARG_N ends up being 'XXX' instead of 5,RSEQ_N and much less 5,10,...,0. The error output of g++ more specifically says that only one argument is supplied.

Having trouble believing that the answer would be proposed and then accepted when it totally fails to work, so what am I doing wrong? Why is XXX being interpreted as the argument and not being expanded? In my own messing around everything works fine until I try to pass off VA_ARGS to a macro containing some names followed by ... like so:

#define WTF(X,Y,...) X , Y , __VA_ARGS__
#define WOT(...) WTF(__VA_ARGS__)

WOT(52,2,5,2,2)

I've tried both with and without () in the various macros that take no input.