Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1217#issuecomment-148773959
Apparently you can sometimes get weird behavior if you confuse the two
cases, because extra parenthesis are then accidentally interpreted as a call to
"apply()".
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