See also #7232 <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7232> where the 
suggestion is to disallow space before the parenthesis in function 
definitions and function calls. That will at least make julia code more 
consistent in that functions and macros work more similarly.

lørdag 24. januar 2015 17.00.17 UTC+1 skrev Erik Schnetter følgende:
>
> On Jan 24, 2015, at 2:53 , Ivar Nesje <iva...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > See also 
> > 
> > @test(1, 2, 3, 4) 
>
> ... and compare this to 
>
> @test (1, 2, 3, 4) 
>
> (with white space before the parenthesis). 
>
> That's a part of Julia's syntax that I don't like. On the other hand, the 
> ability to pass whitespace-separated arguments to macros instead of only 
> comma-separated values is a very powerful feature, as it allows passing in 
> statements without having to wrap them in parentheses. 
>
> -erik 
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