"Pelle Månsson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 01/29/2010 07:10 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> Note in the anecdote above, both users would have >> been satisfied if you could *only* call empty without parentheses. >> > > That's a good point. The writeln = 3; is also a good point. :) > > What I'm trying to defend is the ability to call non-property functions > without the parens. > > I find this: > > array.stable_sort; > file.detach; > range.popFront; > > to look less noisy, clearer and just plain sexier than the respective > versions with the parens.
To me, at a glance, it looks like a series of no-ops. Like "x; y; z;". Only upon closer inspection of the names does it become apperent that functions are actually being called.
