Omittable parens is an evil

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bearophile wrote:
> Tomasz Sowiñski:
>> When coding, at first, I was glad to be able to snip the parens (makes code look cleaner), but then I came to the same conclusion - the illusory cleanness of code strikes back in the form of trouble with telling "something" and "do something" apart.<
> 
> I agree that omittable parens is bad, I always put them.
> If parens become compulsive you don't need to use "&somefunc", you just use "somefunc" to denote the pointer/delegate and "somefunc()" to call it.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Seeing as I don't share your opinion on this topic, I humbly submit that this is not a problem with the language but with the coders, specifically, people who have used function pointers in C.

Since I acquired D before I had much need for that atrocious syntax, &function has always made more sense to me.

Because of this, I do not see a problem with foo or foo() - both are clearly not the function address.

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