pass function by value (?) instead of function pointer?

Question

Sorry if this has been asked before, but I was unable to find it.

So im trying to educate myself about templates and the new C++11 features (mainly lambdas, somethin

Answer 1

In C++, functions are not first-class objects, which means “function as value” makes no sense in it. That's why function name has always been implicitly convertible to pointer to it.