Templates: template function not playing well with class’s template member function [duplicate]

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When you refer to a template that is a member of dependent type, you have to prepend it with a keyword template. This is how the call to getResult inside printStuff should look

size_t value = a.template getResult<B>();

This is similar to using the keyword typename when referring to nested typenames in a dependent type. For some reason, the bit about typename with nested types is rather well-known, but the similar requirement for template with nested templates is relatively unknown.

Note that the general syntax structure is a bit different though. The typename is always put in front of the full name of the type, while template is inserted in the middle.

Again, this is only necessary when you are accessing a template member of a dependent type, which in the above example would be A in printStuff. When you call foo.getResult<> in main the type of foo is not dependent, so there’s no need to include the template keyword.

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