Re: general func. ptr.

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Marcus Barnes (marcus++at++multigen.com)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 11:28:12 -0700

On Jul 2, 10:16am, Nicolas Gauvin wrote:
> On Jun 29, 3:00pm, Swapnil Shah wrote:
> > I know that pointer to function and pointer to method in class is
different.
> > Now can someone tell me how do i have some general pointer, which can point
> > to different methods of different objectes/classes ???
>
> My understanding is that it is not possible to save a pointer to a true
member
> function partly because of the implicit 'this' parameter.

It is possible to declare a pointer to a class member. The syntax is described
in "The C++ Programming Language, 2nd Edition", chapter 5.4.5. I don't recall
if any of SGI's C++ compilers support this language feature yet.

Regards.

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