Omissible Parentheses...

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-08-01 13:05:26 -0400, "Denis Koroskin" <2korden at gmail.com> said:

> On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:04:43 +0400, Chad J  
> <chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Omissible Parentheses
>> 
>> Could someone remind me why we don't remove these?
>> 
>> So far I have
>> - They save typing.
>> - Removing them breaks backwards compatibility.
>> - They allow some features of properties, but with a list of limitations
>> and gotchas.
>> 
>> This is not intended to be a deep discussion.  I'm writing a piece on
>> properties, so I'm gathering information.
> 
> Andrei likes them.

I like them too, despite their gotchas. If they were not cause for 
special rules when returning delegates, also classes and structs with 
an opCall member, I'd want to keep them.

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