Chapter 8. Delegates and Events
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Function pointers are indirect references to functions and support calling functions through variables. With function pointers, you can pass a function as a parameter to a function or as a return type. Function pointers are an important ingredient of many programming languages, including C, C++, and Microsoft Visual Basic. Function pointers can make applications more flexible, extensible, and scalable. Function pointers have been the source of many application bugs, however, because function pointers point to raw bytes of memory. Function pointers are not type-safe, and calling an incompatible method through a function pointer is an infrequent error. ...
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