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Comment by nicolapede | Hacker News Reader

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

  class Derived : public Base<Derived>

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

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