Class Templates

Learn how to use template types in classes in functions

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Template Type Members

As another powerful feature of C++, you can also make template classes, which are classes that can have members of the generic type.

Just like function templates, class templates are also extensively used in real-world scenarios. Some of these are listed below:

  • The C++ standard template library (STL) uses class templates for containers like list, map and set.

  • In game development, for creating generic game objects and components, class templeates are used.

  • We implement graph and network data structures with template-based vertices and edges.

Example

Let's have a look at the following example:

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