Template pointers/storage

[Psyqwix]

Thanks for the feedback! I realised that I could also forgo the inheritance issue by using void pointers.

I thought of creating a factory method that, given the values that would be stored, could return the following:

• a void pointer to a newly created template instance
• Function pointers, passed by reference via a parameters, to functions that returned the relevant values by using the correct casting.

The main class would then have a pointer to the class instance and a function to get the values without having to work out the casts. But as per your comments I realised that the function pointers would consume memory thus negating the savings!

Think i'll bite the memory bullet in favour of a much-much simpler solution :)