Error with address of parenthesized member function

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From the error message, it looks like you’re not allowed to take the address of a parenthesized expression. It’s suggesting that you rewrite

fPtr = &(myfoo::foo);  // main.cpp:14

to

fPtr = &myfoo::foo;

This is due to a portion of the spec (§5.3.1/3) that reads

A pointer to member is only formed when an explicit & is used and its operand is a qualified-id not enclosed in parentheses […]

(my emphasis). I’m not sure why this is a rule (and I didn’t actually know this until now), but this seems to be what the compiler is complaining about.

Hope this helps!

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