Re: [Boost-users] Need boost's help with poor design

From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-02 10:54:11

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> 
> I was just thinking of moving the duplicated code into CRTPPacket
> 
> template<class Derived, PacketID Id>
> struct CRTPPacket : Packet {
>     static const PacketID ID = Id;
>     virtual PacketID getID() const { return(ID); }
> };

Does it even need to be CRTP?

template<PacketID Id>
struct IDPacket : Packet {
     static const PacketID ID = Id;
     virtual PacketID getID() const { return(ID); }
};

Perhaps we're assuming other methods that would make use of Derived.