Pointers to functions

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1512 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>Actually, I believe this is probably due to an influence from C++, ...

No.  What we did for the C standard was to rationalize existing practice,
which allowed the use of a function identifier where a pointer-to-function
was needed, and also allowed one to call functions using the unadorned
(except for the parenthesized argument list) identifier.  It had nothing
to do with any attempt to emulate C++.