Using Lambdas in C++: Listing 1
Function variables in C.
// declarations of image saving functions in different formats.
int saveAsPNG(Image image, char* filepath) {
...
}
int saveAsGIF(Image image, char* filepath) {
...
}
int saveAsTIFF(Image image, char* filepath) {
...
}
int saveAsJPG(Image image, char* filepath) {
...
}
enum ImageType {Png, Gif, Tiff, Jpg};
// saveImageFunction_t is a pointer to a function that receives an image
// and a filepath and returns int.
typedef int (*saveImageFunction_t)(Image image, char* filepath);
// saveFunctions is an array of the previous pointer to function type.
// Notice the order of initialization, similar to the enumation ImageType.
saveImageFunction_t saveFunctions[4] = {saveAsPNG, saveAsGIF, saveAsTIFF, saveAsJPG};
// the following line dereference the pointer and calls the JPG save function.
(*saveFunctions[Jpg])(im, "my_image");
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