typedef MyClass<P1> me;
typedef boost::shared_ptr<me> pointer;

so, later everything will depend on "me", for example: return pointer(new me);
Also, this code could be reused when creating other classes.

Note that this is not necessary:

template <typename T> struct Foo {
        Foo foobar ();
};

template <typename T> Foo<T> Foo<T>::foobar () {
        return Foo(); // << referred to Foo<T> implicitly
}

int main () {
        Foo<void> foo;
        Foo<void> phoo = foo.foobar();
}

Inside the class declaration and inside corpora of member functions, the unqualified class name is an alias for the qualified one.

Or did I misunderstood something?

Sebastian Mach
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