Function calls

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Pelle Månsson" <pelle.mansson at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:hjv9sf$1n5o$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 01/29/2010 07:10 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Note in the anecdote above, both users would have
>> been satisfied if you could *only* call empty without parentheses.
>>
>
> That's a good point. The writeln = 3; is also a good point. :)
>
> What I'm trying to defend is the ability to call non-property functions 
> without the parens.
>
> I find this:
>
> array.stable_sort;
> file.detach;
> range.popFront;
>
> to look less noisy, clearer and just plain sexier than the respective 
> versions with the parens.

To me, at a glance, it looks like a series of no-ops. Like "x; y; z;". Only 
upon closer inspection of the names does it become apperent that functions 
are actually being called.