Posts: 5,409. Grill marks have been discussed many times over the years. Sure, they are pretty and make a really strong statement about the meat, but many high-dollar restaurants reportedly draw their grill marks on with a meat-marker, while others brush on a coat of sugar water prior to it hitting the hit grill.
Pointers to member functions in C++. This is how C++ uses function pointers when dealing with member functions of classes or structs. These are invoked using an object pointer or a this call. They are type safe in that you can only call members of that class (or derivatives) using a pointer of that type.
Pointers are also used to hold the addresses of entry points for called subroutines in procedural programming and for run-time linking to dynamic link libraries (DLLs). In object-oriented programming, pointers to functions are used for binding methods, often using what are called virtual method tables. A pointer is a simple, more concrete implementation of the more abstract reference data type.