Generic base class with multiple template specialized derived classes

Question

I have a finite amount of classes with the nearly-same implementation, the only different being the underlying type of data they manipulate:

class IntContainer
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Answer 1

There is simply no way to do what you want.

The problem is, if this was allowed, the compiler would have to generate as many virtual methods in the base class as there are possible specializations of the template child class (ie. an infinity) which is not possible.