4/26    What are some good reasons to use C fptr over regular method calls?
        \_ Data directed programming allows you to do function calls
           in constant time. Of course, many modern compilers will
           take switch/case statements and implement them in constant
           time.  Look at examples of C function pointers and you can
           see why they're used.
           \_ dude, read the fucking post. VERSUS METHOD CALLS. are you
              fucking awake?
              \_ Well, maybe if he/she DEFINED C METHOD CALLS...
                 \_ Method calls are what the Java people use to call
                    functions associated with a certain class because
                    they're "too cool" to just call them member functions
                    or just functions. Kind of like the whole "Java doesn't
                    have pointers, they have references" bullshit. Even
                    Hilfinger thinks the guys at Sun are full of it.
                        \_ Hilfinger thinks anything which doesn't involve
                           400 macros is full of it.
                    \_ but C is not OO, and hence does not have classes or
                       methods.  Even if the original poster meant "functions"
                       instead of methods, the question makes no sense.
                    \_ It has nothing to do with being "too cool".  Method
                       call is the terminology from Smalltalk, which predates
                       the C++ "member function" terminology.
        \_ Cool people use function pointers.
        \_ you should use method calls whenever you can.
        \_ methods?  in C?  what?
           \_ farms? in berkeley? what?
              \_ moo.
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