shouting versus dotting

[KennyTM~]

Benji Smith wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Chris R. Miller
>> <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The !() syntax seems to serve only as a heads up that it's a template.
>>> Otherwise (as far as I can tell) a simple foo(int)(bar, baaz) would work
>>> just as well as foo!(int)(bar, baaz).
>>>
>>
>> Unambiguous grammar, you fail it.
>>
>> foo(bar)(baz); // template instantiation or a chained call?
>>
>> This _can_ be _made_ to work, but it would mean that the parse tree
>> would be dependent upon semantic analysis, and that just makes things
>> slow and awful.  I.e. C++.
> 
> I'd be happy to get rid of OpCall, which I've always found confusing and 
> pointless.
> 
> --benji

That's going to break a lot of struct constructors using static opCalls.