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The curiously recurring template pattern (CRTP) is an idiom in which a class derives from a class template instantiation using itself as a template parameter. More generally it is known as -bound polymorphism, and it is a form of F-bounded quantification. Wikipedia →
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Noun An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.
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