Re: Newbie question about templates

From:
Salt_Peter <pj_hern@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:13:56 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<1631d2dc-8dfb-4f4b-ae74-2291b21e1d33@l32g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 25, 5:33 pm, Chris <cnatha...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

It have a simple question about templates. I am using the OpenWatcom
compiler. Here is some test code

#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int testInt(vector<int>& x1)
{
        return x1[0];

};


extraneous semicolon, the above is a function definition

template<typename T>
T testTemplate(vector<T>& x1)
{
        T y = x1[0];
        return y;


     return x1[0];

};


no semicolon

The compiler complains about the function "testTemplate": non-type
parameter supplied for a type argument.

I am not seeing the problem. I appreciate any help in this matter.

Thanks

Chris


Templated functions don't exist until a version of the template is
instantiated or generated.
So until you supply how you are using the above template, we can't
really offer much help.

This works:

int main()
{
  std::vector<int> v(10, 9);
  std::cout << testTemplate(v) << std::endl;
}

/*
9
*/

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