diff --git a/lib/symboldatabase.cpp b/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
index 62dff0038..7d26a34dd 100644
--- a/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
+++ b/lib/symboldatabase.cpp
@@ -1074,6 +1074,9 @@ SymbolDatabase::SymbolDatabase(const Tokenizer *tokenizer, const Settings *setti
 
 bool SymbolDatabase::isFunction(const Token *tok, const Scope* outerScope, const Token **funcStart, const Token **argStart)
 {
+    if (tok->varId())
+        return false;
+
     // function returning function pointer? '... ( ... %var% ( ... ))( ... ) {'
     if (tok->str() == "(" &&
         tok->link()->previous()->str() == ")") {
diff --git a/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp b/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp
index dc35ae8a0..5a88c4dc7 100644
--- a/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp
+++ b/test/testsymboldatabase.cpp
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(testConstructors);
         TEST_CASE(functionDeclarationTemplate);
         TEST_CASE(functionDeclarations);
+        TEST_CASE(constructorInitialization);
         TEST_CASE(memberFunctionOfUnknownClassMacro1);
         TEST_CASE(memberFunctionOfUnknownClassMacro2);
         TEST_CASE(memberFunctionOfUnknownClassMacro3);
@@ -1054,6 +1055,19 @@ private:
         }
     }
 
+    void constructorInitialization() {
+        GET_SYMBOL_DB("std::string logfile;\n"
+                      "std::ofstream log(logfile.c_str(), std::ios::out);");
+
+        // 1 scope: Global
+        ASSERT(db && db->scopeList.size() == 1);
+
+        if (db && db->scopeList.size() >= 1) {
+            // No functions
+            ASSERT(db->scopeList.front().functionList.empty());
+        }
+    }
+
     void memberFunctionOfUnknownClassMacro1() {
         GET_SYMBOL_DB("class ScVbaFormatCondition { OUString getServiceImplName() SAL_OVERRIDE; };\n"
                       "void ScVbaValidation::getFormula1() {\n"