Syntax for specializing function templates

Programmer Question

Is there a difference between the following approaches?

// approach 1
namespace std
{
    template<>
    void swap<Foo>(Foo& x, Foo& y)   // note the <Foo>
    {
        x.swap(y);
    }
}

// approach 2
namespace std
{
    template<>
    void swap(Foo& x, Foo& y)
    {
        x.swap(y);
    }
}

I stumpled upon this when I tried to specialize swap for my own string type and noticed that swap<::string> doesn't work, but for a completely different reason :)

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