Typical template notations

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Hello,
I am C++/VC++(MFC)developer. I am new (not very new) with STL. Whenever I come across any function in STL I find difficult to read its prototype because of template notations.
Though, I know template very well, all the types of templates, but not able to understand template notations.

Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Happy Programming.

Posted 18-Aug-11 0:33am

Pranit Kothari

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Maximilien · Answer 1 · 2011-08-18T03:56:00

Solution 1

STL and template notations are basically quite simple and standard; they always use the same style.

have a look at this article :
An Introductory STL tutorial[^]

Max.

Posted 18-Aug-11 3:56am

Maximilien

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2011-08-18T06:05:00

It's also worth going through this section[^] on MSDN. I think the biggest mistake with templates was allowing the use of the class keyword to define a type (rather than typename) as in:

C++

Template < class T  >
class MyClass
{
    T myVar;
...

where < class T > actually means that T is a placeholder which will be replaced by a real type when a real class is built from the template such as:

C++

MyClass<int> mc;

where all occurrences of T will be replaced by int<code>.