In my 20 years of C/C++ programming, I’ve had to use a pointer to a function in almost every project. I don’t even recall the circumstances where it would not make a huge un-testable mess ...

For me, the four chapters that explain how to use pointers with functions, arrays, strings, and structures provide the most important information and examples for programmers and ... Reese, Richard, ...

Pointers are quite possibly the most useful feature of C, especially when they point to opaque structs, or functions. C++ hides pointers to functions a little by calling them virtual, and tightens ...

Delegates are type safe function pointers *with an optional this pointer* thus no need to pass one round yourself. Obviously their utility is much enhanced in contract to C++ by virtue of being ...