Re: [Boost-users] Using boost function with virtual methods

The inheritance is going the wrong way. An actionFuntion instance might be called with any RegressionTestScenario*. But you can't call a CurveGenRegressionTestScenario method with any old RegressionTestScenario* -- only a RegressionTestScenario* that is also a CurveGenRegressionTestScenario* would be valid. The compiler isn't going to synthesize logic for you to dynamic_cast<CurveGenRegressionTestScenario&>(*your_first_param) (which throws unless your_first_param is in fact a CurveGenRegressionTestScenario*). If you want such logic, you'll have to code an adapter and store that.

It has nothing to do with inheritance. The following code won't compile as well: struct A { void f(int i); }; boost::function<void(A *, int)> func = &A::f;