curiously recurring template pattern

English

Etymology

Title of a 1995 article which describes this idiom.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)n

Noun

curiously recurring template pattern (plural curiously recurring template patterns)

  1. (programming) An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.

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References

  1. ^ James O. Coplien (February 1995) “Curiously Recurring Template Patterns”, in C++ Report[1], volume 7, number 2, pages 24–27