Omissible Parentheses...

[Ary Borenszweig]

Benji Smith wrote:
> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> Stdout("Hello, World!").newline.newline.newline;
> 
> Ugh. This is one of the few things about Tango that really drives me 
> nuts. I hate all the usage of the opCall overload and non-parenthetized 
> function calls.
> 
> At first glance, that code doesn't make any sense to me. My brain just 
> doesn't grok what's going on. It takes me a split second to mentally 
> parse it.

Another thing about omissable parenthesis and function calls. When you 
define an opCall, to use it you must write "()". That implies that to 
call a function you must write "()". So not writing "()" should imply a 
function call!

--
import std.stdio;

struct Bar {
     Foo foo;
}

struct Foo {
     int opCall() {
         return 1;
     }
}

void main() {
     Bar bar;
     writefln("%s", bar.foo); // prints Foo
     writefln("%s", bar.foo()); // prints 1
}
--

Isn't that an inconsistency?