RE: omit parenthesis for functions of zero

["Richard Ranft" <rranft@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
> [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br]On Behalf Of Edwin Eyan
> Moragas
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 1:06 AM
> To: Lua list
> Subject: Re: omit parenthesis for functions of zero
> 
> 
> On 3/2/06, Pavel Antokolsky aka Zigmar <zigmar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/2/06, Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > any thoughts about Gavin's tweak from the rest of the list?
> > I think this such syntax is cryptic, unreadable and non-"luish". As
> > Alex Queiroz said - it few letter won't worth the lost readability and
> > expressiveness.  Reminds me "improved" lua syntax, someone posted on
> > list a while ago, where he replaced all keywords and standard library
> > functions with one or two letter acronyms and symbols.

We could just program in bytecode....

Ah, the days of binary programming!

Does anyone still code in Assembly?

Richard