[nicolapede]

Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP) [0] in C++.

  class Derived : public Base<Derived>

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_p...

[snak]

That's awesome. I ran into this situation in C#, and looks like it is useful in some cases.

https://zpbappi.com/curiously-recurring-template-pattern-in-...

[kmote00]

tl;dr: "Generally, whenever you need the derived class information in the base class, you are probably looking for CRTP."