[prog] C++ Templates

[Sue Stones]

Thanks to everyone for your comments, 

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 01:06 am, Dan Richter wrote:
> I think what you want here is:
>    template <typename T>
>    Ordlist<T>::Ordlist(int size) : count(size){
          
It was this  <T> after the Ordlist that I was missing.  I had tried all the
combinations of the other things suggested.  And knowing that I needed it I 
even managed to work out why.


> >        info = new T[size * sizeof(T)];
>
> You don't have to multiply by sizeof(T) here: new T[n] allocates n T's, not
> n bytes.

Oh OK thanks.


> >template <>
> >int isfull(void)
>
> Nothing in C++ would surprise me, so the above might somehow compile under
> some circumstances, but it's not what you want. You want:

I did see the above somewhere, but didn't understand it (clearly).  I will 
work out what it was really used for sometime.

sue