Re: passing virtual member function to templates

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:49:11 -0400
Message-ID:
<gppqvp$q5b$1@news.datemas.de>
g3rc4n@gmail.com wrote:

On Mar 18, 2:17 am, Victor Bazarov <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:

thanks got it sussed


"Sussed"? Sorry, English is not my first language.

template<class T, class FUN>
void foo(T& t, FUN f){


Why is 't' a reference? You could just drop the '&' altogether, no?
The code in the function requires 't' to be a dereferenceable entity
(like a pointer or an iterator).

  (*t.*f)();


I may have been too quick to dismiss the -> syntax you had before. It's
probably fine if you write

    (t->*f)();

because then 't' is required to be a pointer.

}
struct base{
  virtual ~base(){}
  virtual void say()=0;
};
struct dir : public base{
  void say(){
    std::cout << "hi" << std::endl;
  }
};
void bar(){
  base* ptr = new dir;
  foo(ptr,&base::say);
}

g++ doesn't like FUN& because it doesn't like base::*&


Well, that does look like a rather funky syntax...

V
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