From -6606128748203148469 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,9d57bb38940f08c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Francis Glassborow Subject: Re: References to functions allowed? Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434221807 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <36A222B3.E51DFD28@ibm.net> X-Original-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:22:40 +0000 X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 916707628 23769 128.250.29.16 (19 Jan 1999 01:00:28 GMT) Organization: Southfield Microcomputer SS X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUANqPZHeEDnX0m9pzZAQFz2wF+IGDCXtjgINXcid3cZeiga6/IgZ0PrfVa 4lCLoy5xAo/aX5EYP3+1Mn6v0pgHckci =tiev Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Francis Glassborow NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jan 1999 01:00:28 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article , Gabriel Dos_Reis writes >Francis Glassborow writes: > >[...] > >> >> In simple terms IMO I do not think there is any syntactic way that you >> can write a reference to a function (*f does not work because under the >> rules that is converted to a pointer) > >Was that intended or just an oversight ? I do not know, but in what case would it ever matter? Francis Glassborow Chair of Association of C & C++ Users 64 Southfield Rd Oxford OX4 1PA +44(0)1865 246490 All opinions are mine and do not represent those of any organisation --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]