Omissible Parentheses...

[Leandro Lucarella]

Michiel Helvensteijn, el  2 de agosto a las 16:25 me escribiste:
> KennyTM~ wrote:
> 
> >> Interesting.  I don't think I've seen this angle yet.
> >> 
> >> Could you provide code examples, please?
> > 
> > "<p>yes?</p>".replace("<", "&lt;").replace(">", "&gt;");
> 
> Sure, but they have parameters, so they require parentheses anyway. Robert
> Jacques was talking about omissible parentheses for function chaining. That
> would require parameter-less functions.

Well, just take parameter-less functions then:

" hello   ".strip.toupper.replace("O", "A"); // "HELLA"

(I don't know if that even compiles in D2)

I think it's better to have mandatory (), though. Even when you save
a couple of strokes there, I find that code way more confusing than the
same with () (from that code it looks like hello has a strip property
which in case have a toupper property which then have a replace method).

Again, is a tradeoff between writeability and readability. I think is way
more important to prioritize readability.

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