There are several duplicates of this but nobody explains why I can use a member variable to store the pointer (in FOO) but when I try it with a local variable (in the commented portion of BAR), it's illegal. Could anybody explain this?

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class FOO
{
public:
 int (FOO::*fptr)(int a, int b);
 int add_stuff(int a, int b)
 {
  return a+b;
 }
 void call_adder(int a, int b)
 {  
  fptr = &FOO::add_stuff;
  cout<<(this->*fptr)(a,b)<<endl;
 }
};

class BAR
{
public:
 int add_stuff(int a, int b)
 {
  return a+b;
 }
 void call_adder(int a, int b)
 {  
  //int (BAR::*fptr)(int a, int b);
  //fptr = &BAR::add_stuff;
  //cout<<(*fptr)(a,b)<<endl;
 }
};

int main()
{
 FOO test;
 test.call_adder(10,20);
 return 0;
}