Summary

In this chapter, you learned the following:

• You are now aware of the motivation for using generic programming
• You are now familiar with function templates
• You know how to overload function templates
• You are aware of class templates
• You are aware of when to use explicit template specialization and when to use partially specialized template specialization

Congrats! Overall, you have a good understanding of C++'s template programming.

In the next chapter, you will learn smart pointers.