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Template member functions

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

Previously we’ve looked at template functions and we’ve looked at template classes. This time, let’s look at what happens when you combine

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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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