Sharing static members between template instantiations? (impossible?)

Question

I am doing something that is probably silly, but it would be nice if it worked.

I am attempting to specialize types in a way that I need my own lookup structure that

Answer 1

Sounds like you should either just make them global and not worry about it. Perhaps using namespaces is what you want?

Answer 2

You could add a non-templated base class and move lookupTable into that class:

class Base
{
protected:
    static map<string, internal_t> lookupTable
};

template<class T, int N>
class SpecialArray : Base
{
    //...
};