CRTP, method chaining, and static polymorphism

Sat, 04 May 2024 20:00:00 +0800

Yes, it’s yet another blogpost about CRTP and how it’d be useful..

The 1st issue: method chaining

Have you seen a billion other blogposts about CRTP? Yes, so have I. But maybe there’s a reason for all of them; it wasn’t really apparent when reading them previously why it would be useful and/or why I would ever need it.

But recently, while writing some simple templated code for ufl, I had the bright idea of trying to make method chaining possible for the class. That’s when my templated class and its derived friend implementation started to fall apart. I fixed this by using CRTP for the first time.

Crtp on icyveins7's blog

CRTP, method chaining, and static polymorphism

The 1st issue: method chaining