January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
14h 5m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Design Patterns with C++
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Wrapping your head around CRTP
CRTP was first introduced, under this name, by James Coplien in 1995, in his article in C++ Report. It is a particular form of a more general bounded polymorphism (Peter S. Canning et al., F-bounded polymorphism for object-oriented programming, Conference on Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture, 1989). While not a general replacement for virtual functions, it provides the C++ programmer with a similar tool that, under the right circumstances, offers several advantages.