Re: partially specializing member functions of a template class
Lionel B wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:25:20 -0400, Victor Bazarov wrote:
Rahul wrote:
Is there a way to partially specialize only a member function
There is no way to partially specialize _any_ template function. The
only thing you can partially specialize is a class template.
Huh? Doesn't this count as a partial specialisation of a template
function?
No.
#include <iostream>
template <typename T1, typename T2>
void foo(const T1& t1, const T2& t2)
{
std::cout << "non-specialised\n";
std::cout << "t1 = " << t1 << '\n';
std::cout << "t2 = " << t2 << '\n';
}
template <typename T1>
void foo(const T1& t1, const int& t2)
{
std::cout << "partially specialised\n";
Printing out "partially specialised" in a function does not make
that function partially specialised, sorry.
What you have here is an *overloaded* function template.
std::cout << "t1 = " << t1 << '\n';
std::cout << "t2 = " << t2 << '\n';
}
int main()
{
foo(6.7, "hallo");
foo(6.7,3);
}
Output:
non-specialised
t1 = 6.7
t2 = hallo
partially specialised
t1 = 6.7
t2 = 3
V
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