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From: | rd5718 AT irix DOT bris DOT ac DOT uk (Rich Dawe) |
Subject: | Re: Pointers to functions. |
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Date: | Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:24:05 GMT |
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Lark (rlarkatmbhsdotedu) wrote: : Doesn't function overloading accomplish the same thing? For example - : int add(int, int); : float add(float, float); : char * add(char *, char *); You can't do function overloading in C though. This is why function pointers are useful. You can create function tables and simulate object-orientation in some form. -- ============================================================================== Rich Dawe - 4th-year MSci Physicist @ Bristol University, UK richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com, http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ==============================================================================
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