On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 13:42:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
... but at scope level semantics for reader should be perfectly clear and unambiguous even if opened in notepad.
I think we have been throwing the term ambiguous around too carelessly. Obviously code must be semantically unambiguous when viewed in a Notepad. I don't think that's an issue with optional parentheses - the issue is just that it's "not as easy to read", which I don't think means the same as ambiguous (I'm sure about all english words though). "Not as easy to read" shouldn't sound nearly as bad as ambiguous - it's just a little inconvenience that can be gotten rid of by using an IDE that does semantic colorization.
