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C++ How to Program, 10/e
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C++ How to Program, 10/e

by Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel
February 2016
Beginner
1080 pages
207h 57m
English
Pearson
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18.5 Default Arguments for Template Type Parameters

In addition, a type parameter can specify a default type argument. For example, the C++ standard’s stack container adapter class template begins with:


template <class T, class Container = deque<T>>

which specifies that a stack uses a deque by default to store the stack’s elements of type T. The declaration


stack<int> values;

creates a stack of ints class-template specialization (behind the scenes) and uses it to instantiate the object named values. The stack’s elements are stored in a deque<int>.

Default type parameters must be the rightmost (trailing) parameters in a template’s type-parameter list. When you instantiate a template with two or more default arguments, if an omitted argument ...

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