Convert template to inheritance

From:
 JosephLee <shoupeili@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:58:52 -0000
Message-ID:
<1193759932.387089.91260@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
/*
Below you will find the declaration and the definition of the class
Format
    that can be used to manipulate the ostream. Although the class is
only
    capable of setting the width and precision, further functionality
could
be
    added.
    The class is implemented as a template class. Your task is to
rewrite it
    for two types (int and double) without templates using
inheritance.
*/

template<class T>
struct Format {
    typedef ostream& (*Func)(ostream&, const T&, int, int);
    Format(Func func, const T &ref, int width, int precision);
    static ostream& fmt(ostream &, const T&, int, int);

    Func func_; // pointer to format function
    const T &ref_; // reference to object
    int width_; // desired field width
    int precision_; // desired precision
};

template<class T> ostream&
operator<<(ostream &s, const Format<T> &rhs);

template<class T> Format<T>
fmt(const T &ref, int width, int precision = -1);

template<class T>
Format<T>::Format(Format<T>::Func func,
                   const T &ref,
                   int width,
                   int precision)
: func_(func),
   ref_(ref),
   width_(width),
   precision_(precision)
{
}

template<class T>
ostream&
Format<T>::fmt(ostream &s, const T &ref, int width, int precision)
{
    int w = s.width(abs(width));
    int p = (precision != -1) ? s.precision(precision) :
s.precision();
    if (width < 0)
       s.setf(ios::left, ios::adjustfield);
    s << ref;
    s.width(w);
    s.precision(p);
    return s;
}

template<class T>
ostream&
operator<<(ostream &s, const Format<T> &rhs)
{
    return rhs.func_(s, rhs.ref_, rhs.width_, rhs.precision_);
}

template<class T>
Format<T>
fmt(const T &ref, int width, int precision)
{
    return Format<T>(Format<T>::fmt, ref, width, precision);
}

// The program:
main()
{
    double pi = acos(-1);
    cout << "easy as " << fmt(pi, 5, 2) << " ..." << endl;
    cout << "easy as " << fmt(pi, -10) << " ... " << endl;
}

// will print the following output:
// easy as 3.1 ...
// easy as 3.14159 ...
/*
Anyone has some idea of that?

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