This is an advanced example.

You can use variant for light weight type erasure.

template<class F>
struct pseudo_method {
  F f;
  // enable C++17 class type deduction:
  pseudo_method( F&& fin ):f(std::move(fin)) {}

  // Koenig lookup operator->*, as this is a pseudo-method it is appropriate:
  template<class Variant> // maybe add SFINAE test that LHS is actually a variant.
  friend decltype(auto) operator->*( Variant&& var, pseudo_method const& method ) {
    // var->*method returns a lambda that perfect forwards a function call,
    // behaving like a method pointer basically:
    return [&](auto&&...args)->decltype(auto) {
      // use visit to get the type of the variant:
      return std::visit(
        [&](auto&& self)->decltype(auto) {
          // decltype(x)(x) is perfect forwarding in a lambda:
          return method.f( decltype(self)(self), decltype(args)(args)... );
        },
        std::forward<Var>(var)
      );
    };
  }
};

this creates a type that overloads operator->* with a Variant on the left hand side.

// C++17 class type deduction to find template argument of `print` here.
// a pseudo-method lambda should take `self` as its first argument, then
// the rest of the arguments afterwards, and invoke the action:
pseudo_method print = [](auto&& self, auto&&...args)->decltype(auto) {
  return decltype(self)(self).print( decltype(args)(args)... );
};

Now if we have 2 types each with a print method:

struct A {
  void print( std::ostream& os ) const {
    os << "A";
  }
};
struct B {
  void print( std::ostream& os ) const {
    os << "B";
  }
};

note that they are unrelated types. We can:

std::variant<A,B> var = A{};

(var->*print)(std::cout);

and it will dispatch the call directly to A::print(std::cout) for us. If we instead initialized the var with B{}, it would dispatch to B::print(std::cout).

If we created a new type C:

struct C {};

then:

std::variant<A,B,C> var = A{};
(var->*print)(std::cout);

will fail to compile, because there is no C.print(std::cout) method.

Extending the above would permit free function prints to be detected and used, possibly with use of if constexpr within the print pseudo-method.

live example currently using boost::variant in place of std::variant.