Roy observes:

>> In the strict ANSI C++ Standard you can't even do the casts
>> that Walter mentions.  Pointers to functions can't be converted
>> to pointers to objects at all!  Several ARM rules were removed.
>>
>> You must indirectly cast them to an integral type and then to the
>> other.

> This whole thread has got to represent the most eloquent argument
> I have ever seen.
>
> For COBOL :-)

.... even more so for Transact/iX and Java/iX...       :-))

Ken Sletten