Re: templates & classes
John Carson wrote:
"chameleon" <cham_gss@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MIlDh.3628$J11.63611@twister1.libero.it
O/H Pete Becker ??????:
chameleon wrote:
I have 2 classes with exactly the same members (all static except
dtor/ctor).
Classes have different implementantion in only one static member
function and first class has one more member function.
How can I write this code with templates?
First of all: Thought to write code with templates is correct?
Seems like overkill. Put all the common stuff into a class, and write
two derived classes.
The problem here is that: All common stuff is static members.
I want 2 template instantiations, so, 2 static member instances.
If I derive 2 classes from one, both classes share common static
members.
You can easily work around that with templates. A simple example follows.
template <int n>
class Base
{
static int x;
public:
static void Setx(int a_x)
{
x = a_x;
}
static int Getx()
{
return x;
}
};
template <int n>
int Base<n>::x;
class Derived1: public Base<0>
{
};
class Derived2: public Base<1>
{
};
int main()
{
Derived1 d1;
Derived2 d2;
d1.Setx(1);
d2.Setx(2);
cout << "Static member x of d1 is " << d1.Getx() << endl;
cout << "Static member x of d2 is " << d2.Getx() << endl;
return 0;
}
Your solution is correct, but requires assigning each derived class a
unique int. You could instead just directly use the derived class as
the template to the base:
template <class Derived>
class Base
{
static int x;
public:
static void Setx(int a_x)
{
x = a_x;
}
static int Getx()
{
return x;
}
};
template <class Derived>
int Base<Derived>::x;
class Derived1: public Base<Derived1>
{
};
class Derived2: public Base<Derived2>
{
};
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