Hands-On Design Patterns with C++

Expanding the interface

Let's consider several examples where CRTP is used to delegate behavior from the base class to the derived one.

The first example is a very simple one—for any class that provides operator==(), we want to generate operator!=() automatically as the inverse of the former:

template <typename D> struct not_equal {    bool operator!=(const D& rhs) const {        return !static_cast<const D*>(this)->operator==(rhs);    }};class C : public not_equal<C> {    int i_;    public:    C(int i) : i_(i) {}    bool operator==(const C& rhs) const { return i_ == rhs.i_; }};

Any class that inherits from not_equal in this manner automatically acquires the not equal operator that is guaranteed to match the provided operator, equal. An observant reader might point ...