Re: Nested template specialization?

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:28:34 -0400
Message-ID:
<fc7fn7$2rb$1@news.datemas.de>
stephen.diverdi@gmail.com wrote:

Can anyone lend a hand on getting this particular template
specialization working? I've been trying to compile with g++ 4.1 and
VS 2005.

//------------------------------------------------------------------

// my regular glass
class A { };

// my templated class
template < typename T > class B { };

// this is a library class with a library function i want to
specialize for my classes
template < typename T >
class C
{
public:
       void func ( T arg )
       {
               fprintf( stderr, "C< T >\n" );
       }
};

// specialization on A works just fine
template < >
void C< A >::func ( A arg )
{
       fprintf( stderr, "C< A >\n" );
};

// specialization on B<T> fails to compile
template < typename T >
void C< B< T > >::func ( B< T > arg )
{
       fprintf( stderr, "C< B< T > >\n" );
};

//------------------------------------------------------------------

The motivation for this is I have [..valid reason..]
 I'm afraid this is a funny form of partial
specialization of a function and I'm just out of luck, but maybe
there's a workaround? I'm sure other people have had similar
difficulties...Thanks,


It's not "a funny form of partial specialization of a function".
It's a prohibited attempt to specialise a member without first
specialising the class template. You need to specialise C<B<T>>
first and declare that it does have the same 'func' member.

V
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