Back to Basics: Templates (part 1 of 2)

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Part 1 explains concrete mechanics: templates are recipes that the compiler parses in phase 7 parses templates and generates in phase 8 instantiates them. Examples show where templates beat old C patterns (qsort comparator casts that silently fail) and when to use explicit instantiation to cut compile time or export instantiations from a DLL. Covers function/class/alias/variable templates, non-type and template-template parameters, explicit specialization for char const* comparisons, and ODR rules.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:31Features of Templates
3. 2:43References
4. 4:02What Are Templates and Why Do We Have Them in the Language
5. 4:23Function Overloading
6. 5:08A Singly Linked List
7. 6:01Type Erasure
8. 6:15Qsort
9. 8:30Reusing Code That Used Macros
10. 10:01Generic Programming
11. 11:02Lift Algorithms and Data Structures from Concrete Examples to Their Most General and Abstract Form
12. 12:03Template Categories
13. 13:18Class Templates
14. 14:31Example of a Member Function Template
15. 15:38Alias Templates
16. 17:23General Row Vector
17. 17:58Variable Templates
18. 20:44Initialized Fill
19. 21:27Lambda Templates
20. 26:23Translation Units
21. 27:22Translation Unit
22. 27:49Syntax Analysis
23. 28:31Sample Translation Unit
24. 29:31Declarations and Definitions
25. 32:46Template Declarations and Definitions
26. 33:44Member Function Declaration
27. 36:55Template Parameters and Template Arguments
28. 38:37Type Template Parameters
29. 39:12Template Template Parameters
30. 44:02Template Ids
31. 44:29From Template to Specialization
32. 47:04The Relationships between Instantiation and Specialization
33. 47:49Instantiation
34. 48:39Implicit on-Demand or Automatic Instantiation
35. 50:59Implicit Instantiation
36. 51:24Explicit Instantiation
37. 51:48Explicit Instantiation Request
38. 52:49Instantiate Individual Member Functions
39. 55:04Explicit Instantiations
40. 55:22Some Real World Uses for Explicit Instantiation
41. 56:24Shared Libraries or Dlls
42. 57:02Explicit Specialization
43. 59:57Relationships between Instantiation and Specialization

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