From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: C++ problem
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 15:39:11 -0300
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Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Note that even in ANSI C, using the address-of operator on a function
> has no effect; it's superfluous, but it certainly doesn't "take the
> address of the variable containing the address of the function," since
> there is no such thing.

    I did not know that '&' in front of a function name does nothing.  I
suspected it was like a 'void*'.  Or more correctly as 'void&', which is
auto-dereferenced (to a function), but you still can take the address of it.

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