Introduction to C++ Friends, Nesting, Static Members, and Templates

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Class Templates

•By explicitly instantiating a class we also cause all of its member functions and static data members to also be explicitly instantiated unless they have previously been explicitly instantiated themselves.

•We can also explicitly instantiate just select member functions of a class template if all member functions are not needed.

•Explicit instantiations of a class are placed in the same namespace where the class template is defined, which is the same if the class were implicitly instantiated.

•But, default template arguments cannot be used in an explicit instantiation.