Partial specialisation

From:
Alan Woodland <ajw05@aber.ac.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 17 May 2007 14:10:46 +0100
Message-ID:
<1179408430.241464@leri.aber.ac.uk>
Hi,

The following code is legal, and works as expected:

#include <iostream>

template <typename T>
class Bar {
};

template <typename T, typename P>
class Foo {
public:
   void doStuff();
};

template <typename T, typename P>
void Foo<T, P>::doStuff() {
   std::cout << "General" << std::endl;
}

int main() {
   Foo<float, Bar<float> > a;
   a.doStuff();

   Foo<float, float> b;
   b.doStuff();

   return 0;
}

But none of these specialise the method doStuff():

// Not valid:
template <typename T>
void Foo<T, Bar<T> >::doStuff() {
   std::cout << "Specific" << std::endl;
}

// Not valid:
template <typename T, typename P=Bar<T> >
void Foo<T, P>::doStuff() {
   std::cout << "Specific" << std::endl;
}

// Not valid:
template <typename T, Bar<T> >
void Foo<T, Bar<T> >::doStuff() {
   std::cout << "Specific" << std::endl;
}

Is there a valid way to achieve this without using a non member template
function and calling that from within the generic doStuff()?

Thanks,
Alan

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