In article <[log in to unmask]>, Dennis Handly
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Walter Murray ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>: The compiler is producing this ANSI-required diagnostic because,
>: strictly speaking, C does not approve of mixing function pointers
>: with other pointers, even pointers-to-void.
>: Walter Murray
>
>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 :-)