On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:23:55 -0500, Pelle Månsson
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 01/29/2010 08:07 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
f.next();
Looks like it advances f, even though next isn't a verb. Without the
parentheses, it looks like a noop access of a property.
I disagree, it doesn't look like it advances. With the parens, it just
looks like a java-style get-function. To me, at least.
If this were Java, I'd agree with you :) But even on Java, it would have
to be getNext().
I'm not too concerned with requiring () on your examples because it's
inconsequential to me -- having parentheses isn't *less* clear than not
having them. I don't mind if you wish to allow these calls without
parens, but there has to still be a way to force the parens.
I disagree. I understand that in some cases we would not want to permit
calling with parenthesis, and that calling as assignment is sometimes
less than ideal. I do not, however, see any reason to allow forcing of
parenthesis for regular functions.
I guess D can't please everybody all the time. Oh well.
-Steve
