January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
14h 5m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Design Patterns with C++
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Template specializations
Template specializations allow us to make the generated template code differently for some types—not just the same code with different types substituted, but completely different code. There are two kinds of template specialization in C++—the explicit, or full, specialization and the partial specialization. Let's start with the former.