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

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Specializations

•Partial specialization of a class template is the mechanism that we can use to cause one implementation of a class to have different behavior than another.

•This is primarily useful when a class requires different behavior depending on the data types used by the client.

•We must define the specialized version of the class after the class template is defined or declared (called the primary template).

•All members must be completely defined for that version. This means that all member functions must be defined for a specialized class template, even in the case where the functionality is unchanged.