Convert template into C++ class

[Patrik Servin]

Does anyone know of a tool that will convert templates into classes?

Background: Suppose you have a bunch of generic classes (templates) that
actually doesn't need to be generic. They are hard to understand and debug.
Now you want to rewrite them into plain non-generic classes but there is so
many of them that you want to automate this rewriting. Any idea?

Patrik

[Victor Bazarov]

Patrik Servin wrote:

Does anyone know of a tool that will convert templates into classes?
I use the tool called "text editor".
Background: Suppose you have a bunch of generic classes (templates) that
actually doesn't need to be generic. They are hard to understand and debug.
Now you want to rewrite them into plain non-generic classes but there is so
many of them that you want to automate this rewriting. Any idea?

Multi-file search-and-replace feature exists in many good text editors.

[Alvin]

Patrik Servin wrote:

Does anyone know of a tool that will convert templates into classes?

Background: Suppose you have a bunch of generic classes (templates) that
actually doesn't need to be generic. They are hard to understand and
debug. Now you want to rewrite them into plain non-generic classes but
there is so many of them that you want to automate this rewriting. Any
idea?

Patrik

I say, 'sed' is your best friend here. You can write a simple sed script
that will do this pretty easily.

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Alvin

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Patrik Servin wrote:

Does anyone know of a tool that will convert templates into classes?

Background: Suppose you have a bunch of generic classes (templates) that
actually doesn't need to be generic. They are hard to understand and debug.
Now you want to rewrite them into plain non-generic classes but there is so
many of them that you want to automate this rewriting. Any idea?

I used Google

http://www.google.com/

to search for

+"genclass" +"C++" +"Oswego"

and I found lots of stuff including

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-...r/bin/genclass

We used the genclass script to create instances
from templates in "prototype" files
before Bjarne incorporated templates into the language.

Of course, this isn't exactly what you want to do.
I think that what you want to do is "wrong headed"
and I don't believe that any tools exist to do it.