99 Bottles of Beer

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// 99 bottles of beer, C++ template 'meta-programming' version
// By Arion Lei (philipl@cs.ust.hk)

#include <iostream.h>

template<int I>
class Loop {
public:
  static inline void f () {
    cout << I << " bottles of beer on the wall," << endl
         << I << " bottles of beer." << endl
         << "Take one down, pass it around," << endl
         << I-1 << " bottles of beer on the wall." << endl;
    Loop<I-1>::f();
  } 
};

class Loop<0> {
public:
  static inline void f () {
    cout << "Go to the store and buy some more," << endl
         << "99 bottles of beer on the wall." << endl;
  }
};


int main () {
  Loop<3>::f();
  return 0;
}

Alternative Versions

Version	Author	Date	Comments	Rate
object-oriented version	Tim Robinson	04/20/05	4
hacking style	Tim Robinson	04/20/05	14
extreme template metaprogramming	Richard Wolf	04/20/05	5
Preprocessor & self-include recursion	Chocapic	02/27/07	6
feature creep	Jono	04/27/09	1
most extreme template metaprogramming	Henrik Theiling	12/04/11	0
7	Jono	04/15/09	0
ob fuscated	Tapi (Paddy O'Brien)	08/11/05	4
GUI version	Martyn Davies	05/28/05	1

Comments

 Bob said on 06/24/05 21:07:03

Nice use of tmpl specialization and all, but
shouldn't loop<3> be loop<99> in main()?

 saarya said on 04/05/06 14:36:51

a bit of formmating: /*99bottles
of beer,C++
template -'
meta-progr-
amming'ver.
By:Arion-Lei
(philipl@cs
.ust.hk)*/
#include <
iostream.h
>template<
int I>class
Loop{privet:
public: static
inline void f ()
{cout << I << " b"
<<"ottles of beer"<<
" on the wall,"<<endl
<< I << " bottles of"
<<"beer."<< endl<< "T\
\ake one down, pass i"
<< "t around," << endl
<< I-1 <<" bottles of"
<<" beer on the wall."
<<endl<<'\b'<<endl<<""
;Loop<I+(-1)>::f();}};
class Loop<0> {public:
static inline void f()
{cout << "Go to the s"
<<"tore and buy some";
cout<<" more," << endl
<<"99 bottles of beer\
\on the wall." << endl;
}};int main (){Loop<3>
::f( ); return (0) ;}

 9+6VD said on 08/10/08 00:50:15

nize

 Dysnomia said on 08/13/08 00:09:46

Don't you have to add template <> before the explicate specialization on line 18?
I think it should read

template <> class Loop<0> {

I haven't tried compiling it your way but it caught my eye.

-Dys

 Lurveleven said on 05/31/10 11:42:59

Not even near of giving the correct output.

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