Specialize a template with a template

Question

I have a (free) function template that looks like this

template 
T get();

I now want to specialize this function for a class,

Answer 1

As Nawaz said, the standard just doesn't allow you to do that. You could however extract the implementation into the static method of a class and partially specialize that class.

template
struct get_impl{
  static T get(){ ... }
};

template
struct get_impl >{
  static foo_type get(){ ... }
};

template
T get(){ return get_impl::get(); }