Class Templates
You can use class templates to create a family of classes that operate on a type. Class templates are parameterized types. They imply that a separate class could be created for each conceivable value of the parameters (known as template arguments) passed in.
Template arguments can be types or constant values of a specified type. For example:
// class_templates.cpp
template <class T, int i> class TempClass
{
public:
TempClass( void );
~TempClass( void );
int MemberSet( T a, int b );
private:
T Tarray[i];
int arraysize;
};
int main()
{
}
In this example, the templated class uses two parameters, a type T
and an int i
. The T
parameter can be passed any type, including structures and classes. The i
parameter has to be passed an integer constant. Because i
is a constant defined at compile time, you can define a member array of size i
using a standard array declaration.
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