From: "Didier Trosset-Moreau" <tmd AT iprolink DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: pointer to function ??
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:58:03 +0100
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> ok, this might sound like a stupid question, but any way:
>
> I have a class witch looks somthing like this :
> class Man {
>     int x,y,z;
>     ---------
>     void nextthink();
> }


Here, let's say nextthink is a pointer to a function
class Man {
    //...
       void (*nextthink)();
};

> what I need is to be able to do somthing like :
> nextthink() = run();
>
> or
>
> nextthink() = attack();


You have to declare (and further define)
class Man {
    //...
    void run();
    void attack();
};

Then you can write :
    nextthink = run;
    nextthink = attack;

> later on in the game...
>
> any ideas ?