@property - take it behind the woodshed and shoot it?

[TommiT]

On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 10:54:05 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 04:21:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>>
>> I hate optional parentheses with a passion
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Same here.

If that's the level of abstraction on which you want to discuss 
about optional parentheses, then I could say that "I love 
optional parentheses", and since "Love conquers all", my argument 
would win against your argument.

But, joking aside, I think that all hate against optional 
parentheses stems from the increase of ambiguity they 
indisputably cause. However, let's imagine a future where your 
perfect D IDE paints function calls red, and variables blue. 
Then, it will be obvious to you which identifiers are variables 
and which are function calls based on their color. In this 
situation it will feel silly to have to write those empty 
parentheses, because they don't make the code any less ambiguous 
(it's already perfectly unambiguous because of the colors) and, 
infact, those empty parentheses make the code (a bit) harder to 
read.