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Old   July 3, 2007, 09:07
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Dear OpenFoam Users

I am new to c++ programming. I have been looking the source code of OpenFOAM. I am unable to understand the src/OpenFOAM/primitives/pTraits/pTraits.H
I have added my dounts next to the lines i do not understand, please take a look.

This is what it contains :
-----------------------------------------
#ifndef pTraits_H
#define pTraits_H

namespace Foam
{

class Istream; // <-- what does it means here

--> Next it defines a template class pTraits with template argument <class>. I am confused about what is class primitive !! as in the definition [: public primitive ] indicates that class pTraits is also inherited from primitive .

template<class>
class pTraits
:
public primitive // <--- indicate inheritance ??
{

public:

pTraits(Istream& is) // <-- is this a constructor
:
primitive(is)
{}
};

} // End namespace Foam

#endif

Can anybody tell what is primitive and from where it comes !!!

Thanks alot

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Old   July 3, 2007, 09:14
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You did pick a hard place to start: this is advanced templating you are looking at and I bet there is VERY few people on the forum who can actually answer this question properly.

So:

template<class>
class pTraits


means a pTraits class is a template, and we will use a primitive as the template keyword.

Now it gets tricky, with template specialisation for raw types and the "curiously recurring template pattern". Trust me, right now you don't need to know.

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Old   July 3, 2007, 09:19
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Thanks Hrv for the answer.

I take your word and keep away from that for a while.

I sent you an email last week. Please find some time to take a look at that. That was about the Turbulence modelling w.r.t. interface capturing model.

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