Thread: converting

Is there any way to change the template of an object?

Such that

vector <int> list(10);

can be converted to

vector <char> list(10);

and stored in the same vector?

Or is there a way to fake it?

possibly using typename?

I want to make the datatype the template represents different.

Basically, is there a way to make something like

Code:

template <class a>
class datatype
{
    public:
           a data;
};

Where you declare one like this:

datatype<char> name;

What I want to do is make THE SAME variable correspond to an object with type

datatype<int>

so that I can store an unknown datatype, but then later make the same variable store a different type.

In other words, I'd like to be able to do something like this:

Code:

#include <iostream.h>

template <class a>
class datatype
{
    public:
           a data;
};

int main()
{
	datatype *name;
	name = new datatype<int>;
	name.data = 50;
	cout << name.data << endl;   //should be 50
	delete name;
	name = new datatype<char>;
	name.data = 'a';
	cout << name.data << endl;  //should be 'a'
	delete name;
	return 0;
}