Pointer concept isn't hard. Syntax is just awkward and confusing imo.

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Another nice use-case of function pointers could be system calls in OS development. You can talk about how the operating system stores an array of function pointer corresponding to each system call and that helps calling functions simply by indexing in that array.

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A function and a pointer to the function are different types. When assign a function to a variable, func converts itself to a pointer implicitly, just as you mentioned. On the other hand, we can use a ptr to a func to "interact" with "operator ()" just as func itself, just because the "()" is overloaded implicitly, I guess. Actually, a function is able to be "quoted" by reference with the original type rather than a pointer. But when you want to store several functions to a array to do a batch call, the pointers are stored.

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I learned a similar thing in GameMaker and used for Finite State Machine, where state function is assigned to a variable that is called each game frame.

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with this we can implement map(), reduce(), filter() functions as well.

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excellent video. well explained. function pointers seem useful but the way I've been exposed to them so far only highlights the confusion!

Passing functions is super useful sometimes. It's a concept I first saw using JavaScript. It's really cool that you can do it in C++ (for a while) now.

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This brought back memories... I remember back in the early 2000 when I added a console to my game engine and hooked up function pointers to strings to be able to call those functions from the console :P

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In C# i use Action for function pointers. Function pointers are great for Publish/Subscription type of projects.

Such a great explanation with examples.

Function pointers were the precursors to OO. On rare occasion, I still use function pointers ( for dll support) , but really, you should avoid them when they are not necessary, not just because of the obtuse syntax, but because they are too loose - which means intractable bugs. I have seen people essentially reinvent c++ using #define and function pointers. I'm sure they thought it was really clever, but they were the only people willing to maintain the code. As soon as they leave the project, the first thing that happens is others toss their unmaintainable garbage code into the bit bucket and start over.

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finally i understand why there is need for function pointers!! thank you .

I just realized this is how callback function works. Amazing!

i personally love function pointers. I regulary store them in hashmaps , to call a similar, but different funktion every time. Like when i create elements of some sort, but the functions are only similiar in theory, but the execution is different, even if the result is the same. And at this point, i create a HashMap, calling the functions by keyword, with needed parameters. Thats so cool, it really helps me keep my functions organized, and i can add another element to the Map easily at any point For example when i want to parse Network data from another program, or via Rest APIs

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Function pointers allow us to use the concept of higher order function map, if the map function is too complex, then lambda functions won't be readable. So I think that function pointers are still an important part of C++.

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That helped me so much in writing my own game engine with glut window and opengl

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Excellent Video's. Thank you. It would be very helpful if you could have an few famous problems related to the topic and maybe a solution video .

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I hope that you'll talk about method pointers in the next video and how you can use them without the standard library.

This is very handy matter in C++. I can pass a pointer as a parameter, pointer to function which I want to be in charge of handling values. :D

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Excellent vid.

I have always struggled with pointers but this video actually turned on a lightbulb for me XD. I know function pointers are different but the "pointer theory" if you will makes much more sense now!

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What is the difference between: void ForEach(const std::vector& values, void(*func)()) and void ForEach(const std::vector& values, void func () ) both work fine for me.

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@TheChernoProject I've never seen that kind of for loop! I kinda understand what it does: for (every index in : this array) do this; I'd like to see what other ways that could be used! Could you do a short video, or dedicate part of a video to explaining that. If you've already done that, can you show me where to look? :) Thanks for the vids, they're so helpful

I've been working with UE4 and dispatchers seem to work based on function pointers, but I was never sure what a function pointer _was_ or how it was _written_ because UE code is so....'nebulous' isn't the right word, it's just kinda hard to track stuff down is all. And this video got me caught up. A+ stuff right here.

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So, like nested functions, essentially? very cool

Great C++ videos! Much appreciated. Is that an XPS 13 your using?

GUI benefits greatly from event driven patterns. void(*onclick)(int x, int y); If nobody uses this syntax, what is my alternative?

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What would it look like if we specify a template in void(*func)(int) ?

OMG! did i just learnt lamda and function pointer in 10 minutes... awesome!

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you should do a video about using variadic templates function pointers, its a really cool topic.

The name says it all. It points towards a function instead of a variable.

this lesson which involves some many technical things such us auto, vector, typedef, function pointer, reference, even iterator inside

I just find this so cool

C++ Callbacks! Nice

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