curiously recurring template pattern

noun

Etymology

Title of a 1995 article which describes this idiom.

Definitions

  1. An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as…

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for curiously recurring template pattern. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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