Specialization
Explore template specialization in C++ to customize behavior for different template arguments. Understand how primary, partial, and full specialization work together, and learn the rules the compiler uses to select the appropriate specialization for class templates.
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Specialization
Template specialization addresses the need to have different code for different template argument types. Templates define the behavior of families of classes and functions.
- Often it is necessary that special types, non-types, or templates as arguments are treated as special.
- You can fully specialize templates; class templates can even be partially specialized.
- The methods and attributes of specialization don’t have to be identical.
- General or Primary templates can coexist with partially or fully specialized templates.
The compiler prefers fully specialized to partially specialized templates and partially specialized templates to primary ...