templates vs inheritance

[shashwatgaur]

Can some one tell me what are the differenc b/w templates and inheritance.
I know one that templates are instantiated at compile time while inheritance is a result of run time.

[maloov]

inheritance is inheriting some of let's say a class's members,to use them in another class..

while a template is a very useful method, that allow some functions to work with more than one variable type.. like int, char, float or even objects...etc

with templates you don't declare a certain variable as a parameter or a return value, you just make it as general, so it can accepts any kind of variables..

hope you get it..

[weaknessforcats]

Inheritance is a C++ feature that allows a class to use methods from another class as though they were methods of the class itself. Inheritcance is resolved at compile time.

One aspect of inheritance is to create derived objects and use them as base objects. But when the base method is called, the call actually goes to the derived method. This is polymorphism and this is a run time feature.

Templates are altogether different. A template is a pattern that is copied by the compiler and the typename placeholders in the copy are replaced by the type used to specialize the template. This occurs at compile time.