Curiously Recurring Template Pattern - General Form

General Form

// The Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP) template class Base { // methods within Base can use template to access members of Derived }; class Derived : public Base { // ... };

Some use cases for this pattern are static polymorphism, and other metaprogramming techniques such as those described by Andrei Alexandrescu in Modern C++ Design. It also figures prominently in the C++ implementation of the Data, Context and Interaction paradigm .

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