Does anyone know the status of defining template member functions within
a class definition without making the class itself templated?

 [This is allowed by the draft C++ standard, but it is a relatively
 recent language extension and most compilers don't support it yet.
  -Moderator (fjh).]

In other words, can one write:

  class my_class {
     ...
     my_class(Iterator,.....)
     ...
  };

  template <class Iterator>
  my_class::my_class(Iterator,....) {   .... };

Is this legal in the draft standard?
 [You didn't get the syntax quite right -- you need to insert
 `template <class Iterator>' in the class declaration too, i.e.
    class my_class {
       ...
       template <class Iterator>
       my_class(Iterator,.....)
       ...
    };
 But other apart from that, yes, it is legal.  -mod.]

On a related point, does anyone know
of a work-around to defining a structure similar to this, subject to the
limitations of today's compilers?

 [Followups on that question to comp.lang.c++.moderated, please. -mod.]

Imran Haq
ihaq@mit.edu
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