Complain to your compiler vendor. The standard doesn't mandate diagnostics
for valid code. It's a good idea, but you're directing it at the wrong
people.

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 21:47 Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Today I discovered the following bug:
>
> if ( wxIsMainThread ) DoSomething();
>
> The bug here is that 'wxIsMainThread' is a function, and so it should have
> been:
>
> if ( wxIsMainThread() ) DoSomething();
>
> I think where we have a function converting to bool -- but not where
> we have a function pointer converting to bool -- the compiler should
> be mandated to issue a diagnostic.
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