c++ template to template parameter

Question

recently i was testing some c++ template codes and i found one mind-boggling error. According to my research on internet in particular stackoverflow, this code is completely val

Answer 1

Expanding on chris' answer, the following compiles fine with both visual c++ 12.0 and g++ 4.7.2:

#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

template class C, class T, class U> void print(C& c)
{ (void) c; }

void test() {
    vector v(5, "Yow!");
    print(v);
}

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However, if you really just want to output the items of a container, why not do this instead:

#include 
#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

template< class C >
void print( C const& c )
{
    for( auto const& item : c )
    {
        cout << item << endl;
    }
}

auto main() -> int
{
    vector v(5, "Yow!");
    print(v);
}