Chapter 6. Programming with Templates
When Bjarne Stroustrup worked out the original C++ language design for templates, he referred to them as parameterized types: “parameterized” because they are factored out of the template definition, and “types” because each class or function template typically varies by one or a set of types being operated on or contained. The actual type is later specified by the user.
Stroustrup later changed the name to the more general template. A single template definition serves as a prescription for the automatic generation of a unique instance of a function or class based on a user-specified value or type.
Although we have extensively used class templates, such as the vector and string classes, we haven’t yet implemented ...
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