Re: How to get a templated class to determine template argument list on it's own?

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 5 May 2007 19:20:38 -0700
Message-ID:
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"Ian Collins" <ian-news@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5a4qanF2nopieU8@mid.individual.net...

Jim Langston wrote:

This should illistrate what I am trying to do:

template <class T>
T SomeFunction( T parm )
{
    return parm;
}

template <class T>
class SomeClass
{
public:
    SomeClass( T fp ) {}
};

int main()
{
    int x = 0;
    SomeFunction( x );
    // SomeClass sf( x ); // Won't work
    SomeClass<int> sf( x );
}

I'm trying to instantize a templated class without having to specify the
template argument. I can do that for templated functions as shown. When
trying to compile for classes, however, I'm told that:
error C2955: 'SomeClass' : use of class template requires template
argument
list

For this simple type of int illistrating the problem, it's no big deal.
All
I have to do is add <int>. But what I'm actually trying to do is come up
with a way to store function pointers in a class which this is the first
piece of. I'm don't want to have to figure out if it's int (*)( float,
double, std::string).

I mean, I can in a fuction pass the name of a function and even call it
in a
function (with no parms at this point) and I don't have to type in code
the
template argument.


You will have to use a function template to wrap what ever it is you are
doing. Unfortunately, that's the way it is.


Okay, this actually works as far as it goes, although I didn't think it
would:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

class Base
{
    virtual ~Base() {}
};

template <class T>
class SomeClass: public Base
{
public:
    SomeClass( T fp ) {}
public:
    T fp;
};

template <class T>
SomeClass<T>* SomeFunction( T parm )
{
    return new SomeClass<T>( parm );
}

int Foo( int Parm )
{
    std::cout << "In Foo\n";
    return Parm;
}

double Bar( )
{
    std::cout << "In Bar\n";
    return 3.1415926;
}

void FooBar( int a, double b, std::string c )
{
    std::cout << "In FooBar\n";
    return;
}

int main()
{
    std::vector<Base*> Functions;

    Functions.push_back( SomeFunction( Foo ) );
    Functions.push_back( SomeFunction( Bar ) );
    Functions.push_back( SomeFunction( FooBar ) );
}

Now I just have to figure out some mechanism to call fp( parms ) in the
derived classes :/ I've been scratching my head on this one.

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