Etymology

Barton-Nackman trick

Today it means: A form of restricted template expansion in C++, characterized by an in-class friend function definition appearing in the base class template component of the curiously recurring template pattern. Full definition →

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The story

The technique was introduced by John Barton and Lee Nackman.

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