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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition
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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

by Stephen Prata
November 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
1128 pages
29h 12m
English
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Class Templates

Inheritance (public, private, or protected) and containment aren't always the answer to a desire to reuse code. Consider, for example, the Stack class (Chapter 10), the Queue class (Chapter 12), and the ArrayDb class (this chapter). These are all examples of container classes, which are classes designed to hold other objects or data types. The Stack class, for example, stored unsigned long values. You could just as easily define a stack class for storing double values or String objects. The code would be identical other than for the type of object stored. However, rather than writing new class declarations, it would be nice if you could define a stack in a generic (that is, type-independent) fashion and then provide a specific ...

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