Re: Template<> without any content
It's complete specialization where you specify all template arguments
as opposed to partial template specialization where you specify
only some of the template arguments for the specialization and still
templatize by the rest.
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Thanks Igor,
I have found some learning resource,
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/template_specialization.html
I think it should be called template specialization, is it the same thing
which you mean *explicit specialization*?
regards,
George
"Igor Tandetnik" wrote:
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I sometimes saw code with template<> and followed by a class
definition, like,
[Code]
template<> class {
// class definition
}
[/Code]
That would be explicit specialization. Read about it in your favorite
C++ textbook.
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