Re: non type template specialization / recursive

From:
 er <erwann.rogard@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:17:38 -0000
Message-ID:
<1194653858.330843.281400@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 9, 6:55 pm, er <erwann.rog...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 8, 11:34 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:

er wrote:

hi,

could someone please help with this code?

template<unsigned int N,unsigned int M>
class A{
   public:
           A();

};

template<unsigned int N,unsigned int M>
A<N,M>::A(){};//fine

//intended: partial specialization
template<unsigned int N>
A<N,0>::A(){};//not fine//see compiler error below


You can't specialise a member of a class template, you have to
specialise the class template:

template<unsigned int N>
class A<N,0>
{
public:
  A();

};

template<unsigned int N>
A<N,0>::A(){};

--
Ian Collins.


following up with this: what i'd like to implement is a recursion, but
as below it does not work...

template<unsigned int M>
class A{
        public:
                static A<M>& instance();
        private:
                A();};

template<unsigned int M>
A<M>& A<M>::instance(){
        static A<M> singleton;
        return singleton;};

template<unsigned int M>
A<M>::A(){};//WITHOUT RECURSION. FINE
//A<M>::A(){A<M-1>& ref = A<M-1>::instance();};//RECURSION. NOT FINE.
template<>
class A<0>{
        public:
                static A<0>& instance(){
                        static A<0> singleton;
                        return singleton;
                };
        private:
                A(){};

};

../header.hpp: In constructor 'A<M>::A() [with unsigned int M = 1u]':
../header.hpp:15: instantiated from 'static A<M>& A<M>::instance()
[with unsigned int M = 1u]'
../main.cpp:5: instantiated from here


from what i see online enum is preferable to static for recursive
template. still, any help welcomed.

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