Re: Totally omit default parameter brackets from template?
Can't you just use typedef?
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<tony@donotspamme.ar> wrote in message
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Hello!
I have this template class with a default type (please do not give too
much importance to the actual code, it's just an example, it's not a
useful implementation of anything nor a good example of use of void*):
template <typename Type = void>
class MyClass {
int Var;
Type* Get() {
return((Type*)Var);
}
void Set(Type* Address) {
Var=(int)Address;
}
};
I can declare instances of this class like:
MyClass<int> Instance1;
MyClass<short> Instance2;
MyClass<void> Instance3;
etc..
the latter can be written also as:
MyClass<> Instance3;
and here's finally the question: I'd like to use also this default form:
MyClass Instance3;
which of course will be perfectly equivalent to MyClass<> and
MyClass<void>
How do I do it? I tried some namespace trick, but not successfully (which
doesn't mean it's not the right way to go, but just that I'm too lame to
successfully bring it to life).
Please note I am using VisualC++ 8.0 (a.k.a. 2005) targeting native x86
code on 32bit Windows and I do NOT care about portability for the specific
case, so any trick that would work with this compiler would be fine++ for
me.
Thank you very much,
Tony
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