shouting versus dotting

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:42:51 +0400, Jarrett Billingsley
> <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If we don't omit parenthesises, the ambiguity goes away:
>>>
>>> foo()(5)
>>> foo(5)()
>>>
>>
>> No it doesn't.
>>
>> Stdout("foo")("bar!").newline;
>
> And what causes ambiguity here? I mean, imagine you can't drop empty
> paranthesises.
>

The point is that something like "foo()(5)" could then be either a
template instantiation or a chained call.