Attention: Answers.ros.org is deprecated as of August the 11th, 2023. Please visit robotics.stackexchange.com to ask a new question. This site will remain online in read-only mode during the transition and into the foreseeable future. Selected questions and answers have been migrated, and redirects have been put in place to direct users to the corresponding questions on Robotics Stack Exchange. Additional details are available here.

Revision history [back]

This should be possible, if you use member function pointers to virtual functions. See: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7150/Member-Function-Pointers-and-the-Fastest-Possible

Caveat: I haven't tried it myself; you probably want to play around with it a bit to make sure it'll work for your use case.

Templates may be a better choice.

ROS Answers is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license.