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You can define a member function that is a template in a non-template class. For example: class A{public: template void func(); // member template }; How can you call such
A generator is a function or algorithm returning a series of values upon successive calls. The most common example is a random number generator although generators have many other useful
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The standard iostream family of classes defines the widen() member function which converts a single char to its wide-character equivalent. widen() has the following prototype: char_type widen(char c) const; The