curiously recurring template pattern

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Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

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 edit

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