On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 01:38:01 UTC, kenji hara wrote:
2013/1/25 kenji hara <[email protected]>
I have thought an additional idea.
If we really want a feature to disable optional parentheses
for normal
functions, we can add @function attribute to the language spec.
int foo();
@property int bar();
@function int baz(); // new!
int x1 = foo(); // ok
int x2 = foo; // optional parentheses, allowed
int y1 = bar(); // disallowed, calling int is meaningless
int y2 = bar; // ok
int z1 = baz(); // ok
int z2 = baz; // *disallowed* by @function attribute
I think calling a function which does not annotated with
@attribute without
parenthesis is legal, Even if a function has some side-effects
and a name
looks like verb. Because native English grammar does not require
parentheses.
He runs(). // normal function call
He runs. // optional parentheses
Kenji Hara
English grammar don't have any functional style enable. It is not
possible to return runs itself.
