Hi Sebastien,

you can put the declaration and the definition of a template
class in different files, if use "explicit instantiation".
This means that you have to write something like
template class A<int>;
for all classes, which you want to use in class A.
You have to write this in the definition file.

In ANSI C++ this problem will be fixed by the new keyword "export".


Ralf
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Are we forced to put the Declaration and the definition of a template
class in the same file? If not how can we avoid this?

Sebastien Alix
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