C++的Traits

1. Think of a trait as a small object whose main purpose is to carry information used by another object or algorithm to determine "policy" or "implementation details"  ------ Bjarne Stroustrup

2. The traits class is used in template code to reflect properties (traits) of the actual template argument.

1. template <typename T>  
2. struct TraitsHelper {  
3.      typedef T ret_type;  
4.      typedef T par_type;  
5. };  
6. template <>  
7. struct TraitsHelper<int> {  
8.      typedef int ret_type;  
9.      typedef int par_type;  
10. };  
11. template <>  
12. struct TraitsHelper<float> {  
13.      typedef float ret_type;  
14.      typedef int par_type;  
15. };  

1. template <typename T>  
2. class Test {  
3. public:  
4.      TraitsHelper<T>::ret_type Compute(TraitsHelper<T>::par_type d);  
5. private:  
6.      T mData;  
7. };