Re: omit parenthesis for functions of zero arguments / customcontrol structures

["Olivier Delannoy" <olivier.delannoy@...>]

It's easyer to type () than rembering names are function call one 
month or even a week later.



On 2/28/06, Bret Victor <bret@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Lis
a Parratt writes:
> > > I mention this in part because in Perl
> >
> > Why does everyone always suggest features from that aborted
> > abomination of a language, rather than ones from SPARK, Z, or other
> > languages with a bit of class and back bone?
>
> Well, the feature in question (syntactically sugary closures) is in Smalltalk
> and (therefore) Ruby, both of which have class.  (Or, at least, classes.)
> I imagine Perl adopted it from there.
>
> I'm personally a fan of any syntax that makes abstraction easier to type.
>
> Lua:  function () return foo + bar end
> Smalltalk:  [ foo + bar ]
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