How to best pass methods into methods of the same class

Question

I have this C++ class that one big complicated method compute that I would like to feed with a \"compute kernel\", a method of the same class. I figure I would

Answer 1

You have two alternatives :

1. using pointer to member function
2. using lambda functions

Example using pointer to member function :

#include 

class D
{
public:
  D(int v ) : classVar_(v){}
  int add_(int a, int b){return (a+b+classVar_);}
  int multiply_(int a, int b){return (a*b+classVar_);}
private:
  int classVar_;
};

class test {
public:

int compute_(int a, int b, D &d, int (D::*f)(int a, int b))
{
   int c=0;
   // Some complex loops {
   c += (d.*f)(a,b);
   // }
   return c;
}

};

int main()
{
  test test;
  D d(1);

  std::cout<<"add : " << test.compute_( 5, 4, d, &D::add_ ) << std::endl;
  std::cout<<"add : " << test.compute_( 5, 4, d, &D::multiply_ ) << std::endl;
}

Example using lambda :

#include 
#include 

class D
{
public:
  D(int v ) : classVar_(v){}
  int add_(int a, int b){return (a+b+classVar_);}
  int multiply_(int a, int b){return (a*b+classVar_);}
private:
  int classVar_;
};

class test {
public:

int compute_(int a, int b, std::function< int(int,int) > f)
{
   int c=0;
   // Some complex loops {
   c += f(a,b);
   // }
   return c;
}

};

int main()
{
  test test;
  D d(1);

  std::cout<<"add : " << test.compute_( 5, 4, [&d](int a, int b){ return d.add_(a,b); } ) << std::endl;
  std::cout<<"add : " << test.compute_( 5, 4, [&d](int a, int b){ return d.multiply_(a,b); } ) << std::endl;
}