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Article #3477Re: Problem with template overloading
From: Steve Clamage
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 06:05
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 06:05
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"brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca> writes:
>Is it allowed to overload template names based on their parameters
>in the same way that functions can be overloaded?
>I tried to create two versions of the same class name as such:
>template <class C>
>class A {
> [...]
>};
>template <class C1, class C2>
>class A {
> [...]
>};
No, that is not allowed. You cannot have more than one template
with the same name in the same scope.
The closest you could come would be to use a default template
parameter or partial specialization. Not all compilers support
those features yet.
--
Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!taumet!clamage From: clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Problem with template overloading Date: 18 Feb 1996 06:05:16 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <4g62e0$kub@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4g40t8$kpq@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: taumet.eng.sun.com Content-Type: text X-Nntp-Posting-Host: taumet.eng.sun.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #21 (NOV) Content-Length: 626 Originator: clamage@taumet