Re: template specialization question

hello,

i am trying to write a matrix class for linear algebra.

template <class T,int ROWS,int COLS> class matrix
{
private:
    T m_data[COLS*ROWS];
public:
    T &operator at(int x,int y) { ...}
....
};

I want to add a special function only to matrix<T,3,3>.
i still want it to inherent everything from the initial "matrix"
class.

if i just specialize it, i.e.
template <class T> matrix<T,3,3> {
public:
     matrix<T,3,3> inv(void) {.....};
};
then i will only have inv(), but not everything else ( e.g. at()
function)

if on the other hand i do:
template <class T> matrix<T,3,3> : public matrix<T,3,3>
then i get a recursion ...

how do i solve that ?