Re: Template template partial specialization

From:
Hizo <hizostudio@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 4 Mar 2011 07:28:36 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<35c7dc80-6b53-413e-a8fe-d7b16f584560@u12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>
On 4 mar, 15:16, Victor Bazarov <v.baza...@comcast.invalid> wrote:

On 3/3/2011 9:19 PM, Hizo wrote:

Hi everybody,

I would like to use partial template specialization with template
parameters and optional template parameters, but I didn't find out
documentation about it and my compiler (g++) doesn't seem to accept
it : so how to proceed ?

For a piece of illustration here is my situation:


Don't post "a piece". Post a complete program you're trying to compile.
  Don't post a huge one, remove everything irrelevant to your inquiry.
FAQ 5.8.

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// global
template< template<class> class, class>
class Z
{};

// e.g.
template< class, class Opt = O>


What's "O"?

class X
{};

// specialized
template< class B, class Opt = O>


Again, what's "O"?

class Z< X<class, O>, B>
{};
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Thanks in advance for your help.


Sorry, can't provide any - not enough information in your article.

FAQ 5.8.

V
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Ok, sorry I thought that it would help since it might be more clear.
Here is my code in substance in which I removed everything
irrelevant :
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#include <functional>
using std::equal_to;
using std::less_equal;

// a class
template< class T >
class Object
{
    public:
        Object(AType a, T t) : /* init members */ {}

    /* class code */
};

// abstract class (designated as an interface for a relation order
between vectors)
template< class >
class VectorWeakOrder
{
    /* code */
};

// template class (no polymorphism but template because we must create
pointer of that type order for further use of special properties of it
in one of the methods of this class)
template< template <class> class VectorWeakOrderT, class ValueType,
class Equal = equal_to< ValueType > >
class ROR
{
    /* code */

    typedef Object< VectorWeakOrderT<ValueType> > ObjT;

    ObjT create() const
    {
        /* code */

        return ObjT( a, VectorWeakOrderT<ValueType>() );
    }
};

// template SpecialOrder class which is a VectorWeakOrder of type T
template< class T, class Equal = equal_to<T>, class LessOrEqual =
less_equal<T> >
class SpecialOrder: VectorWeakOrder<T>
{
    /* class code */
};

// partially specializing class ?
template< class ValueType, class Equal = equal_to< ValueType >, class
LessOrEqual = less_equal< ValueType > >
class ROR< SpecialOrder<class T,Equal,LessOrEqual>, ValueType, Equal >
{
    /* same code as before (before I was trying to specialize only a
templated method of the unspecialized template class but I read that
it was not standard so I gave up this idea and specialized the entire
class which was templated with another argument which is only useful
for this method) */

    /* specialized method */
    ObjT create() const
    {
        SpecialOrder< ValueType, Equal, LessOrEqual > special_order_obj;

        /* do some stuff with order_obj and the class members (const) */

        return ObjT( a, special_order_obj );
    }
};
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