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Steve Clamage (clamage@Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:

: In article 95Sep15152129@physics2.Berkeley.EDU, Martin Hitz <hitz@ftp.univie.ac.at> writes:
: >
: >A while ago, Steve Clamage kindly pointed out to me that partial
: >template specializations where allowed by the draft standard.
: >
: >Thus for a template
: >
: >	template<class T, int n> class X { ... };
: >
: >it should be possible to explicitly specify a variant for, say,
: >
: >	class X<class T, 1> { ... };
: >
: >where T is still a "free" formal parameter. 
: >Although I know that most compiler don't support this feature yet,
: >I'am curious about the syntax of such a partial specialization
: >(I don't think the above example is correct).

: According to the way I read 14.6, class template specialization, [temp.class.spec]
: you would write
: 	template<class T> class X<T, 1> { ... }


: ---
: Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com

One could use it to avoid new and delete in a container:

template <class T, int size> Array
{
	...
	T array[size];
	...
}
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