On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:49:22 -0000, Rob T <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
Yes!
R
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