Is this legal C++?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 19, 2000, Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org> wrote:

>   (this->*C::oper) (x, y);

> Now I find this somewhat surprising.  Why doesn't the "implicit this"
> syntactic sugar extend to an implicit ->* for references to
> pointer-to-member-function members?

I don't remember the rationale, but I'm pretty sure draft versions of
the Standard required the explicit use of `this->*' in such cases.  I
can't find any such wording in the final Standard, but I don't
remember exactly in which section I (think I :-) had read it, so I may
just not have found it.

> Also, note that G++ insists on the first pair of parentheses;

This is correct, it's a matter of precedence.  Without the
parentheses, it would be parsed as

this->*(C::oper (x, y));

which is totally bogus.

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