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Function objects, function templates, and passage by behavior in C++

Year: 1997

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Passing functions and function objects to general purpose routines is a powerful abstraction mechanism that should be taught in freshman computer science. In C++, a "function" can be defined directly by the user or by a library or can be defined indirectly via operator() as a member function of a class. It is not obvious how to treat these "functions" in a uniform manner. We will show how function templates in C++ provide an elegant and teachable mechanism for passing entities with functional behavior as arguments to other functions.

Source: ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)

DOI: 10.1145/268084.268095

Author: Richard Rasala

Institution: Northeastern University

Language: English

Topic: Teaching and Learning Programming

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2069762894

FWCI: 4.79

Cites: 7

Cited by: 10

Related to: 10