I prefer being able to use the bare words. It makes refactoring simpler to move between a variable and a method which I do regularly. The warning seems strange since there isn't an ambiguity that is being decided. I'm on board with Dave here.
Amos King Binary Noggin > On Dec 3, 2016, at 00:45, Louis Pilfold <lo...@lpil.uk> wrote: > > I personally think this is clearer, and I don't feel this is clearer. With > this I think it is easier to tell when computation is happening- previously > it could be hidden behind what looks like variables. > Cheers, > Louis > >> On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, 04:42 Dave Thomas, <d...@pragdave.me> wrote: >> I’ve been loving 1.4 for a few weeks now, but I am bugged by the new warning: >> >> warning: variable "int" does not exist and is being expanded to "int()", >> please use parentheses to >> remove the ambiguity or change the variable name >> Partly it is because it makes my code a lot uglier. For example, in quixir, >> instead of >> >> test "two plain types" do >> ptest a: int, b: list do >> assert is_integer(a) >> assert is_list(b) >> end >> end >> I now have to write: >> >> test "two plain types" do >> ptest a: int(), b: list() do >> >> . . . >> Ugh. Even worse, the premise of the warning seems wrong. It assumes int is a >> variable, which doesn’t exist. But it does know that int is a function, >> because if I misspell it and put ()s on, I get a compilation error. So why >> can’t it just do that: is a bare name is encountered that isn’t a variable, >> just internally tack on the ()s are see what happens. Which I think is the >> old way. >> >> Basically, what compelling problem drove this change? It isn’t an issue I >> ever had before, and the change seems to make my code worse. >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/22ad983c-0917-4425-abbe-a6e954ae3b61%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM-pwt7JgYzWnC6y1-ELHj%2BOeaJDuDCamAxJmktdeYRdLaYFEA%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/1865E0E4-7879-4307-900B-99CEF366091D%40binarynoggin.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
