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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Parameterized Types Simulation
Keywords: c++
Message-ID: <71039@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 91 21:06:46 GMT
References: <3666@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <3666@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> spark@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Sooyong Park) writes:
|HAVE YOU TRIED THE FOLLOWING?
|
|As far as I know, C++ does not provide parameterized types.
|Is there any way we can simulate parameterized types ?
|For example, to build a class for LIST which has a generic
|type, I may program as follows.  Please tell me your way
|of doing so.

The ANSI-C++ committee added parameterized types [aka "templates"] 
to the working definition of the language in November.  Expect more
and more compilers to add support for such.  See ARM chapter 14 for
how templates work.