Regarding your other question, I'm not totally sure I understand, could you post a short code snippet? class Serialization {
Zachary Turner wrote: private: struct DataStructure { std::map<std::string, uint16> m_Uint16Map; std::map<std::string, uint32> m_Uint32Map; void remove (std::string const& variableName) { m_Uint16Map.erase(variableName); m_Uint32Map.erase(variableName); } }; typedef boost::shared_ptr<DataStructure> boostData; std::map<std::string, boostData> m_DataMap; boostData m_CurrentStructure; public: Serialization(void) { m_CurrentStructure = boostData(new DataStructure); m_DataMap[""] = m_CurrentStructure; } void putUint16(std::string const& variableName, uint16 variable) { m_CurrentStructure.remove(variableName); m_CurrentStructure->m_Uint16Map[variableName] = variable; } void putUint32(std::string const& variableName, uint32 variable) { m_CurrentStructure.remove(variableName); m_CurrentStructure->m_Uint32Map[variableName] = variable; } };
You can do them in the form of template specializations for the type of data to store/retrieve If I use template specialization I would be creating a function for every type. This doesn't seem any better than creating a function for each type I want. Why would I want to do this?
Ryan