Re: How to create class template from class?

From:
Christian Hackl <hacki@sbox.tugraz.at>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:05:18 +0200
Message-ID:
<i8et92$dqb$1@news.eternal-september.org>
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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