At 01:38 PM 2/29/00 -0800, you wrote:
>(Using NT 4.0, CW R6, compiler version 2.3.1, __MWERKS__ == 0x2301)
>
>I'm writing a stream class. It includes a member function template to
>generically support writing out objects of any type. It looks like this
>(simplified for illustration) --
>
> struct ObjectStream
> {
> template <class T>
> void WriteObject( const T & obj ) { /* ...do stuff... */ }
> };
>
>This works, PROVIDED that the member template body is defined inside the
>class declaration. But I want to move it down outside the class body, for
>readability and compliance with our coding standards. I believe the syntax
>outside the class is supposed to be something like this:
>
> template <class T>
> void ObjectStream::WriteObject( const T & obj ) { /* ... */ }
>
Try:
template <class T> void WriteObject(const T& obj)
{
// blah blah
}
ObjectStream is not a class, it's a structure - you don't need to provide
the namespace, it's in the global one.
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