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Templates and polymorphism

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Introduction

Template functions and classes tend to cause consternation amongst programmers. The conversation tends to go something like this:

I understand the syntax of templates (although it’s ugly)
I get the idea of replacing function-like macros with template functions
I can see the application of template classes for containers
Most containers and generic functions are library code
I don’t write libraries
What’s the point of me using templates?

In this article we’re going to look at an application of templates beyond writing library code – replacing run-time polymorphism […]

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