[boost] Re: Re: Vertical vs. Lateral Policy implementations

From: Andrei Alexandrescu (andrewalex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-02 02:36:26

"David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:aaqg2h$cr7$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> Whenever I see people mention it, they seem to call it the
"curiously
> recurring template pattern", from which I gathered that it pops up
in
> unusual circumstances.

It's a bit awkward that we, as a community, rediscovered a concept
well-known in the academia for a long time, under the name of
"F-bounded polymorphism".

See Peter Canning, William Cook, Walter Hill, Walter Olthoff:
F-Bounded Polymorphism for Object-Oriented Programming, (c) 1989 ACM.

Andrei