No household is perfect

[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 19:41:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On the other hand Walter has been adamantly against 
> configurable syntax (and talked me into that stance as well), 
> so D is immune from quite a few issues pointed by that rant. D 
> code is readable at least at surface level without needing 
> context.
>

Arguably, optional () and the mess involved around fall into the 
category of opaque and unclear syntax.