C++ inheritance and member function pointers
- by smh
In C++, can member function pointers be used to point to derived (or even base) class members?
EDIT:
Perhaps an example will help. Suppose we have a hierarchy of three classes X, Y, Z in order of inheritance.
Y therefore has a base class X and a derived class Z.
Now we can define a member function pointer p for class Y. This is written as:
void (Y::*p)();
(For simplicity, I'll assume we're only interested in functions with the signature void f() )
This pointer p can now be used to point to member functions of class Y.
This question (two questions, really) is then:
Can p be used to point to a function in the derived class Z?
Can p be used to point to a function in the base class X?
