I have a legacy class like:
class Wrapper{
public:
Wrapper(void*);
void* get();
};
I want to create a type safe wrapper like:
template<class T>
class Wrapper{
public:
Wrapper(T);
T get();
};
Stuff like this won't work because of C++11:
template<class T = void*> //Here I would need <>
class Wrapper...
typedef Wrapper<void*> Wrapper; //This isn't allowed
Is there a way to convert Wrapper to a template class without editing all places where it's already used?
If you do not want to change at other places, you can give your templated class a different name (because you don't even use it then in the first place):
template<typename T>
class WrapperT
{
public:
WrapperT(T t) : _T(t) {}
T get() { return _T; }
private:
T _T;
};
using Wrapper = WrapperT<void*>;
If you then removed every usage of Wrapper
you can rename WrapperT