AFAIK, Groovy learned quite a few design ideas from many great language, e.g. Ruby. The optional parentheses feature was inspired by Ruby. The feature makes Groovy more friendly as DSL to users, but ambiguities introduced... Ruby has similar troubles(See the following link)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26480823/why-does-white-space-affect-ruby-function-calls Cheers, Daniel.Sun ----- Apache Groovy committer & PMC member Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html
