Omissible Parentheses...

Robert Jacques sandford at jhu.edu
Sat Aug 1 12:51:50 PDT 2009


On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:05:26 -0400, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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 (a lot). I find they increase the clarity of my code  
(particularly function chaining).



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