Re: Non-initialized class

Hello,

I encountered something unfamiliar to me today and I would like some
clarifications. Unfortunately I don't have access to a standard but
even if I did, I'm not even sure if I could understand it well enough
to answer my question...

Here's the deal: without instantiating the class, the code in question
calls both static and non-static member functions like this:

class foo {
public:
    static void bar() { std::cout << "bar" << std::endl; }
    void bar2() { std::cout << "bar2" << std::endl; }
};

void
func(foo* f)
{
    f->bar();
    f->bar2();
}

int
main()
{
   func(NULL);
   return 0;
}

Is this allowed? And if it is, does a situation exist where it would
be an advisable way of doing things?