On Tuesday, 4 December 2012 at 21:58:49 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
Exact costs, yes. But syntactic properties can, and have
historically also given a good indication of costs and this is
useful. Removing that, is less than useful and potentially
surprising.
Compare that to what you gain from this change.. nothing useful
that I can see.
Making variable assignments and function calls look the same
buys you nothing, you're trying to make apples and oranges look
like oranges and hide all the nice, useful, detail and
distinction you get from having both assignments (oranges) and
function calls (apples) and all that they imply.
R
You can make functions and vars look different through a naming
convention, and do even more if you choose. The enforcement of
the empty () as essentially an enforced naming convention.
--rt
