Re: How to create class template from class?
dd ha scritto:
I have following class (and its work fine):
Actually, it contains an error. See below.
#include <set>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
If this is a real header file, then you should remove the "using namespace".
class mySet: public set<char> {
public:
mySet(): set<char>() {}
template <class Iterator>
mySet(Iterator first,Iterator last): set<char>(first,last) {} /
friend ostream& operator<<(ostream &out, const mySet &X);
mySet& operator+(mySet &X);
};
If I were you, I'd actually get rid entirely of the derivation from
std::set and write two extra free-standing functions for printing and
getting the union.
ostream& operator<<(ostream &out, const mySet &X) {
out<<"{";
for (set<char>::iterator i=X.begin();i!=X.end();i++) {
if (i!=X.begin()) out<<", ";
out<<*i;
Why not use const_iterator?
}
out<<"}";
return out;
}
mySet& mySet::operator+(mySet &X) {
mySet returnValue;
set_union(this->begin(),this-
end(),X.begin(),X.end(),inserter(returnValue,returnValue.end()));
return returnValue;
}
Here you return a reference to a local variable, which leads to
undefined behaviour. Your compiler should have warned you about this, too.
Anyway, both of those functions could be templated non-member functions,
so that they also work for std::set<int>, std::set<double> etc. They can
be implemented entirely in terms of std::set's public interface.
template <class ValueType>
std::set<ValueType> union(std::set<ValueType> const& other)
{
//...
}
In fact, this makes the entire extra class unnecessary.
It is a container set<char> with overloaded operators: << and +. Now I
would like to modify above code to create class template with
parameter T - a typ of elements of the set. I tried following code
(and it didn't work):
What did not work, and what did the compiler say? You are not talking
about the typo with the slash after mySet's constructor definition, are you?
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