partial template specialization

From:
Tomcat <tomek.kaczynski@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:01:52 CST
Message-ID:
<1192002998.554795.236030@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
Hi All,

   Can you help me with a problem i have with a partial template
specialization, let's say i want to specialize template AB for a
container sdt::deque or any other. Is there any way to have all
methods and properties from 'general' AB and to specialize only
ONE method ? I think i coud do that using multiple inheritance,
is
there any other way ?

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#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template<class T, template <class,class> class Cont , typename Alloc =
allocator<T> >
class AB{

public:
    typedef typename Cont<T,Alloc> tCont;
    tCont buf;

    void write(T & el){
        cout << "general" << endl;
        buf.push_back(el);
    }

    void read(T & el){
        el = buf.last();
    }
};

template<class T,class Alloc

class AB<T,std::deque,Alloc>{
public:
    void write(T & el){
        cout << "specialized" << endl;
        std::deque<T,Alloc> buf;
        buf.push_front(el);
    }
};

class A{

public:
    ~A(){ cout<< "destructor" << endl;} };

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{

    AB<A,std::vector> Buf;
    A b;
    Buf.write(b);
    Buf.read(b);

    AB<A,std::deque> Buf2;
    A c;
    Buf2.write(c);
    Buf2.read(c);
}

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EOF-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks in advance,
Tomek

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