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)
- (programming) An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.
Synonyms
- CRTP
References
- James O. Coplien (February 1995), “Curiously Recurring Template Patterns”, in C++ Report, volume 7, issue 2, pages 24–27