On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:30:09 -0500, Timon Gehr <timon.g...@gmx.ch> wrote:
I do not have any hard data on this, but &fun and &(fun) meaning different things is extremely confusing.
I can vouch that I find it confusing. At least on one other occasion, Walter nixed a feature because of this.
It was for const(X) to mean tail-const and const X to mean full const. The point was made that const(X) and const X should be equivalent, and to do otherwise will result in tremendous confusion.
I see a similar pattern here. -Steve
