From: jesjones AT halcyon DOT com (Jesse Jones)
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Subject: Re: Template Class as Object Function Parameter
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:00:00 -0700
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In article <34C8192D DOT 6DE290C4 AT nwrain DOT com>, obremski AT nwrain DOT com wrote:

> I was just wondering why the following code doesn't work.  I have a
> template class called Array.  And in one function I wish to have a
> parameter that is of this class and the SAME type as the current class
> object.  So I naturally thought that 'Array<dt> *src' would work, but i
> get errors.  Please help =)
> 
> template <class dt>
> int Array<dt>::copy (Array<dt> *src, long int loc)
> {
> 
>   // --- function meat goes here =) --- \\
> 
>   return 0;
> }

Looks like it should work to me. What kind of errors are you getting? BTW
when copying objects within template code it's a good idea to use STL's
copy function. Quality implementations will provide specializations of
copy() for simple types like ints and floats that can be copied via memcpy.

  --Jesse