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Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> Can you clarify the difference between the terms "trick" and "technique"? Is
> "technique" necessarily something else other than a dressed-up trick?

A trick becomes a technique once it's found to be generally
useful in some way and becomes part of the established way
of doing things.

One of the best C++ examples is the Barton & Nackman inheritance
trick, which has achieved wide use and goes under the name of
"curiously recurring template pattern"

     template <typename T> struct Base { /*...*/ };
     struct MyClass : Base<MyClass> { /*...*/ };

where a class inherits from a template parameterized with the
class itself.