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The '''curiously recurring template pattern''' ('''CRTP''') is a [[C++]] idiom in which a class <code>X</code> derives from a class template instantiation using <code>X</code> itself as template argument. The name of this idiom was coined by [[Jim Coplien]]{{ref|Coplien}}, who had observed it in some of the earliest [[C++]] template code.

== General form ==