Meanings
proper nounthe Barton-Nackman trick
- computingA 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.
Origin
The technique was introduced by John Barton and Lee Nackman.
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