Topic

Curiously recurring template pattern

A generics idiom in which a type passes itself as its own type argument, so a shared contract can refer back to the concrete implementing type.

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Summing an array of T in C# takes two interface constraints and a self-referring type parameter

Generic Math shipped in .NET 7 on 8 November 2022 so an interface could declare a static operator. Teams get compile-time arithmetic without reflection or dynamic, and pay in the constraint lists their APIs publish.

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Reality

Evidence74
Adoption42
Hype gap+8
Incentives28
Confidence64