Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> > Looks like it would only be useful for some pretty obscure situations...

> Really? They're useful all the time in C#. Like, every time you have a 
> callback function you register with the GUI, or every time in Java where 
> you'd have to create an anonymous inner class or something. Pointers to 
> members are the OO mechanism corresponding to closures.

> You have a window representing an object. You want to be notified 
> whenever the mouse moves over the window. How do you tell the window 
> manager that?

  Isn't this usually handled with callback interfaces (in OO languages)
rather than function pointers?

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                                                          - Warp

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