are there function pointers in c#?

Question

I am trying to learn some c# coding and wondering if the c++ concept of function pointers is included in c#. I see there are such things as delegates. Are they the same co

Answer 1

Not in the classical C/C++ sense, no. But the concept is somewhat similar - .NET introduces the concept of delegates to handle situations where you need a variable to invoke a method upon. Delegates cannot be "twiddled" with as pointers can and there is type safety built-in.

If you use C-style function pointers "correctly" the concepts are similar. But there seems to be a lot of legacy code which does funny manipulations of the pointers to skirt around type-safety or what-not.