Yeah, I had a whole write-up about it above, but some people don't listen.

On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 5:41 PM Tom Honermann via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 9/8/23 5:16 AM, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals 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.
>
> The standard is only able to specify that a diagnostic is produced for a
> ill-formed program and even then, the actual diagnostic issued is a
> matter of QoI; a conforming implementation can emit "😭" as its
> diagnostic. What you are effectively asking for is to make the code
> above ill-formed.
>
> Tom.
>
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