Re: printing template argument

On 8 Mag, 11:31, Venkat <swara...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I'm wondering about how to print the name of the template argument in
> a template method.
>
> template<typename C>
> class ABC {
>
>     void func()
>       { std::cout << C << std::endl; }   // just to make the problem
clear
>   };
>
> ABC<int> x;
> x.func();
>
> I'm expecting "int" as output. Is there a way to get achieve this?
>
> (I don't want to pass a string argument representing the type to the
> class.)
>

In case you need a compile time debugger you can use this very very
quick and dirty trick

template<typename T>
struct show {};

and then in your program

void func() { show<C>::type_name dummy; }

You will get a compile error stating something about unknown member
type_name for ... C


Marco


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