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- 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++)
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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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