Partial Specialization
Templates can have more than one parameter type. Some older compilers allow one only to specialize either all or none of the template's parameters. Compilers that support partial specialization allow the programmer to specialize some parameters while leaving the others generic. Until recently most compilers did not support this feature well (at best) or ignored such specializations (at worst).
At least the GNU, Intel, Comeau, and Microsoft compilers fully support partial specialization of templates.
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