Challenge: Pair Template
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Problem statement
Understanding data structures is critical for programmers to manage and scale software solutions. You’re tasked to implement a template class Pair
that represents a pair of values of any data type. The class should have the following member variables:
The
first
represents the first value of the pair.The
second
represents the second value of the pair.
The Pair
class template should also be able to create pairs with different data types and check the equality of pairs using the ==
operator. Also, implement a ValuePair
alias template that represents a pair of the same value type.
Note: Create any auxiliary methods that can help solve this problem.
Analysis
We can extract the following information from the problem statement:
The
Pair<T>
class: A class that has twoprivate
member template variables,first
andsecond
.Equality comparison (
==
): Overload the equality operator (==
) to compare two pairs for equality. The comparison should check if both thefirst
andsecond
values of thePair
class are equal.Alias template (
ValuePair
): Implement an alias templateValuePair
that represents a pair of the same value type. It should take a single template parameterT
and definePair<T>
as the type of the pair, as shown below:
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