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

[Julien Hamaide <julien.hamaide@...>]

Hi all,

I'm not sure it's a good idea. I frequently return function as variable.
For a game, I've implemented a state chart keeping state as a function 
pointer.

If a function without parameter is automatically call without (), I 
can't do something like this

function GetNextState()
   if( must_change_state )
   {
       return my_state;
   }
end

function my_state( ) ... end

Julien Hamaide
Elsewhere Entertainment

Olivier Delannoy a écrit :

> It's easyer to type () than rembering names are function call one 
> month or even a week later.
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> On 2/28/06, Bret Victor <bret@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
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a Parratt writes:
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> > > > I mention this in part because in Perl
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> > > 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?
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> > 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.
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> > I'm personally a fan of any syntax that makes abstraction easier to type.
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> > Lua:  function () return foo + bar end
> > Smalltalk:  [ foo + bar ]
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