This is a topic for python-ideas, not python-3000.
To be absolutely brutally honest, it doesn't look like you understand
parsing well enough to be able to write a PEP. E.g. why is
cos(3)+4
not interpreted as
cos((3)+4)
in your proposal?
Python's predecessor had something like this, and th
Chris Monsanto wrote:
> so those uncomfortable with
> this (basic) idea can continue to use parens in their function calls.
But we would have to read people's code who didn't use them.
> my_func2 # call other function
> my_func2() # call it again
So, those two are the same, but these two are d
Since Python makes such a distinction between statements and expressions, I
am proposing that function calls as statements should be allowed to omit
parentheses. What I am proposing is 100% compatible with Python 2.x's
behavior of function calls; so those uncomfortable with this (basic) idea
can co
