Abstract
The generic programming paradigm has exerted great in.uence on the recent development of C++, e.g., large parts of its standard library [2] are based on generic containers and algorithms. While templates, the language feature of C++ that supports generic programming, have become widely used and well understood in the last years, one aspect of templates has been mostly ignored: template template parameters ([2], 14.1). In the first part, this article will present an in depth introduction of the new technique. The second part introduces a class for arbitrary precision arithmetic, whose design is based on template template parameters. Finally, we end with a discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of this new programming technique and how it applies to generic languages other than C++.
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Weiss, R., Simonis, V. (2001). Exploring Template Template Parameters. In: Bjørner, D., Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45575-2_48
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