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From: ziporama@aol.com (Ziporama)
Subject: Re: Member functions of class templates
Date: 1997/12/29
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Paul D. DeRocco writes:

>
>Luddy Harrison wrote:
>> 
>> Section 14.5.1.1 of CD2 says this:
>> 
>>    A member function of a class template is implicitly a member
>>    function template with the template-parameters of its class
>>    template as its template parameters.
>> 
>> Could someone familiar with the intent behind this wording give me an
>> example of this rule at work?
>
>It's simpler than you think. All it means is that when you instantiate the
>class, you also instantiate the member function. Since there's a different
>version of the class for each combination of template parameters, there's
>also
>a different version of the member function, even though the declaration of
>the
>member function doesn't show the <...> notation.
>
>-- 
>
>Ciao,
>Paul
>---

Thanx Paul!
I am just a newbie, trying to figure it all out......you didn't just give me a
decent explanation.....you gave me another way of looking at code. And it
doesn't even matter if the explaination is correct or not! (although i suspect
it is, at least trivially)

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