Passing Generic class objects to non-member routines ? How to ?

[SantoshNarayan]

The following code is in error. How can I pass generic class objects to
non-member routines ? The compile time errors are :

1. Undefined symbol 'mytype'.
2. Cannot generate template specialization myclass<mytype>.
3. Undefined symbol 'myclass'.

These errors are fired at the point where the function has been defined.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template <typename mytype> class myclass
{
mytype val;
public :
myclass(mytype i){ val = i; }
mytype func(){ return val; }
friend void outfunc(myclass<mytype> &obj);
};

void outfunc(myclass<mytype> &obj)
{
cout << obj.val << endl;
}

int main()
{
myclass<int> ext(11);
cout << ext.func() << endl;

outfunc(ext);

return 0;
}