CS 102 Lecture Notes

Week Eight, Thursday: Templates (continued)

Template Classes

Template <class Item>
class Bag
{
  . . . 
};

Creating a template class imposes some additional requirements and complexity on the programmer and member function implementations must be included in the class header file. The good news is that template functions are generally necessary only for utility container classes (and many of these are already provided in standard libraries). The bad news is that the student will still need to know how to implement template classes for the exams.

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