pointer to std::vector of arbitrary type (or any other templated class)

Question

let\'s say i want to have a member variable for a pointer to std::vector but i do not want to specify what type of variable it stores. I want to access only those functions that

Answer 1

The line

std::vector* myVec

is not syntactically correct. One has to specify the type of the vector elements.

You may want to do something on the line of

template< typename T >
class Foo{
  private:
    std::vector * myVec;
};

However, even that doesn't look nice, re-evaluating the design might be more important here.