Partially specializing member-function implementations

Question

I\'m currently refactoring some code the explicitly specializes a member function of a class template with two template parameters.

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Answer 1

You are correct, it is not possible.

What you can do is create a helper member class template inside the new Foo, and place the specialized function inside it as a non-template member function. Specialize the helper class instead of the function.

Another alternative is to turn the specialization into a non-template overload.