Template specialization and inheritance

Question

Suppose I have a template class with a lot of functions and I want to specialize them to change only a few of them and keep the other ones exactly as specified in the base templ

Answer 1

Nicol's solution works fine, but this is an alternative:

template
struct Base
{
  void print1() {cout << "Base::print1" << endl;};
  void print2() {cout << "Base::print2" << endl;};
};

template<>
void Base::print2() {cout << "Base::print2()" << endl;};

That way you can specialize only specific member functions and still use those that you haven't specialized(in this case, print1) without any problem. So now you'd use it just like you wanted:

Base i;
i.print1();
i.print2(); // calls your specialization

Demo here.