function pointers

[Courageous]

>Indeed, being able to move around bound methods is one of the things
>that impressed me most about Python.

Yup. And for those of you not following the Evil Empire (tm),
C-sharp has an analogous structure called a "delegate".
This is an answer to the whole static-member-function-
dispatch-to-non-static-member-function lunacy that crept
into C++ as callbacks grew into favor. And it beats the hell
out of those spurious lunatical functor objects as well. :)

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