On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In my days of Perl, it was starting to become frowned upon to call
> > subroutines without parenthesizing arguments.  Is that no longer the
> > case?
>

​As I understand it, there are several reasons not to make function calls
in Perl without parenthesis.  Whether they are good reasons is a question
for the user.  Modern Perl <http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/> chapter
5 covers most of them.

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