Re: How to define inserter or extractor for a class template
On Oct 8, 3:19 pm, Barry <dhb2...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 8, 2:57 pm, laikon <lai...@gmail.com> wrote:
this question is about how to define friend functions for a class
template.
the following is an example.
template <typename T>
class Array
{
private:
T* parr;
int sz;
friend ostream& operator << (ostream& os, const Array<T=
& rhs);
friend ostream& operator<< <T> (ostream& os, const Array<T>& rhs);
Note that this is only a work around for VC2005.
According to 10.5.3
We should forward declaring "template operator<<", which requires
forward
declaration of "template class Array".
So the code looks like this:
template <typename T>
class Array;
template <typename T>
ostream& operator<< (ostream&, Array<T> const&);
template <typename T>
class Array {
...
friend
ostream& operator<< <T> (ostream&, Array const&); // Array<T> is
also fine
};
template <typename T>
ostream& operator<< (ostream& ostrm, Array<T> const& a) {
...
}
};
template <class T>
ostream& operator << (ostream& os, const Array<T>& rhs)
{
for (int i = 0; i < rhs.sz; ++i)
os << rhs.parr[i] << "\t";
return os;
}
these codes work well in VC++ 6.0, while linking errors are given in VC
++ 2005.
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Barry
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