This chapter discussed class templates and class-template specializations. We used a class template to create a group of related class-template specializations that each perform identical processing on different data types. We discussed nontype template parameters. We also discussed how to overload a function template to create a customized version that handles a particular data type’s processing in a manner that differs from the other function-template specializations. In the next chapter, we present the features of C++’s string
class and introduce string
stream processing.
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