Inclusion of Parenthesis on Certain Functions
H. S. Teoh
hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Sun Jun 13 15:58:30 UTC 2021
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 03:45:53PM +0000, Justin Choi via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I'm currently learning D right now, and I was wondering why certain
> functions like std.stdio.readln can work both with and without
> parenthesis for the function call. I've tried looking through the
> documentation but can't find an explanation for why you can use it
> without parenthesis.
In D, parentheses for function calls are optional when there are no
arguments. So:
func();
can be shortened to:
func;
When UFCS is in effect, the empty parentheses on the right side of the
function call are also optional:
func(abc);
can be rewritten as:
abc.func;
T
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