From C to C++: The Evolution of Function Pointers and Why It Matters
2 min readJun 21, 2024
If there is one feature which was ahead of time when it was released “function pointers” in C lang. I don’t need to illustrate with examples/use cases where its used. You can see all over the files in C code.
However, as like anything, it got evolved and C++ took the better part of function pointers into some standard library calls.