C++ Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

CHAPTER 9

Templates

The STL is written using a language feature provided by C++ called templates. Templates provide a method you can use to write generic code that can be specialized at compile time to create concrete functions and classes of varying type. The only requirement for template code is that output can be generated for all of the types used to specialize a template in your program. This may be a little difficult to understand at this point, but it should be clearer by the time you finish this chapter.

9-1. Creating a Template Function

Problem

You would like to create a function that can be passed different types of parameters and return ...