On 02/03/2013 11:24 PM, eles wrote:
On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 08:16:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
In brief:
* Optional parens stay.
This syntax sugar only helps in chained-UFCS calling.
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Nope.
a.map!(a=>2*a);
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* Read properties (using @property) work as expected with the mention
that they may NOT be called with the parens. Any parens would apply to
the returned value.
And if the returned value is a parameterless function, shouldn't that be
callable without parens?
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No, it shouldn't. The rewrite is (rightfully) not applicable to
expressions of first class function types. The only reason why the
implicit calling and @property approaches are workable is because the
language also supports non first class functions (inherited directly
from C).
