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In article <41b09t$ltj@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>,
clamage@Eng (Steve Clamage) wrote:

>In the mean time, you could write a specialization of Foo<X>::compare
>that throws an exception or invokes "assert(0)" to allow your code
>to compile and link. That is, for example, if you use Foo<complex>,
>you could provide the specialization
>	int Foo<complex>::compare(const complex&) { assert(0); return 0; }
>which will prevent the compiler from generating a version from the template,
>and will thus allow your program to compile and link.

Can you specialize just that one function for complex or do you have to
specialize the whole class Foo<complex> with all its members to change the
implementation of Foo<complex>::compare?

  - lars


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