Re: Variadic templates

From:

"Greg Herlihy" <greghe@pacbell.net>

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comp.std.c++

Date:

Thu, 7 Sep 2006 00:41:25 CST

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Howard Gardner wrote:

These are the particular stumbling blocks that hurt the worst, and I run
into them fairly often (or, more correctly, I deploy workarounds for
them fairly often).

1) If you write:

template< typename T, T V > struct sometype;

then there's no way to partially specialize it for a particular type. It
seems to me that this should work (but of course it doesn't).

template< int V > struct sometype< int, V >;

..because the partial specialization of "sometype" does not declare a
complete type. A full or partial specialization of a class template
needs to be a complete type in order to instantiate objects with it:

    template< int V >
    struct sometype< int, V > {};

Now the partial specialization of sometype works. For example:

    sometype< int, 7> mytype;

will use the partial specialization above.

2) There is no way to specify a generic nontype template parameter. This
would be nice:

template< nontype > struct something;
template< > struct something< char * >;
template< typename T > something< T * >;
template< typename T > something< T ** >;

so I can write a template that will take an integer, a particular type
of pointer, a reference, a pointer to a pointer to anything, etc.

Why would a nontype parameter be useful here? A "something" template
with one parameterized type, such as:

      template< class T > struct something {};

can be specialized in all the ways shown above:

    template< > struct something< char * > {};
    template< class T > struct something< T * > {};
    template< class T > struct something< T ** > {};

Greg

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