I'm starting with a short introduction of what i know from the C language:

• a pointer is a type that stores an adress or a NULL
• the * operator reads the left value of the variable on its right and use this value as address and reads the value of the variable at that address
• the & operator generate a pointer to the variable on its right

so i was thinking that in C++ the pointers can work this way too, but i was wrong, to generate a pointer to a static method i have to do this:

#include <iostream>

class Foo{
    public:
    static void dummy(void){ std::cout << "I'm dummy" << std::endl; };
};

int main(){
    void (*p)();
    p = Foo::dummy; // step 1
    p();
    p = &(Foo::dummy); // step 2
    p();
    p = Foo; // step 3
    p->dummy();
    return(0);
}

now i have several questions:

• why step 1 works
• why step 2 works too, looks like a "pointer to pointer" for p to me, very different from step 1
• why step 3 is the only one that doesn't work and is the only one that makes some sort of sense to me, honestly
• how can i write an array of pointers or a pointer to pointers structure to store methods ( static or non-static from real objects )
• what is the best syntax and coding style for generating a pointer to a method?