Chapter 1, Problem 10E

Program Plan Intro

Class template declaration and function definition:

The general syntax of a generic class declaration is shown below:

Syntax:

template<class type> class class-name

{

  return type function(arguments);

}

The function declaration syntax is shown below:

Syntax:

return type class-name<type>::function(arguments)

{

};

Here, “type” denotes the placeholder type name, which will be specified when a class is instantiated. A comma-separated list could be used to define more than one generic data type. Here, the return type of function is stated in beginning, followed by class name, template class “type name” and finally the name of function.