Today I was trying to link together code which uses C++ Templates. The usual accepted pattern is to put the declarations in the header, and the definitions in a separate .hpp / .cpp file. However, I was unable to get them to link it together.

To my surprise, I discovered (or re-discovered, probably) that, when dealing with C++ Templates, you need to put the definitions in the header file. A good explanation of why it is so, is here.