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Class Templates

Explore the concept of class templates in C++ to create families of classes that support different types and parameters. Understand how instantiation works, how to define method templates, and how inheritance interacts with templates for more flexible and reusable code.

A class template defines a family of classes.

Syntax #

template < parameter-list > 
class-declaration 		

Explanation #

parameter-list: A non-empty comma-separated list of the template parameters, each of which is either a non-type parameter, a type parameter, a template parameter, or a mixture of any of those.

class-declaration: A class declaration. The class name declared becomes a template name. ...