r wrote: [...] > Like Python’s forcing of empty tuple in function calls, that is a good > idea. This allows you to clearly see arguments in source code. I like > in Python there is only one, or a very minimal number of ways to do > something(but usually only one is the best). Ruby is littered with > different ways to do the same thing. I think this will be Ruby’s > undoing…. And Pythons if we follow down this road. > > And lets not forget Python forcing of indention, that is Pythons > greatest strength! > Kindly allow me to disabuse you of the notion that a function call with no arguments is a function reference followed by an empty tuple. It might *look* like that, but it isn't. Otherwise we'd write a function call with one argument as f(a, ) - which readers will have noticed we don't.
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