RE: Syntactic sugar for function parameters

["Jerome Vuarand" <jerome.vuarand@...>]

Robert Raschke wrote:
> > dropping () for function calls cannot work:
> > 
> > myprint = print
> > 
> 
> I think it was meant as in "if there's no parens after the 
> function take the next thing as the sole argument", like:
> 
> a_string = "foobar"
> print a_string
> 
> or
> 
> twice = function (x) return function(y) return x(x(y)) end 
> end double = function (x) return x + x end print (twice double 42)

Maybe it's time to introduce a space operator. That way the expression:

   print a_string

would turn into a call to some metamethod:

   function __space(a, b)
      return a(b)
   end

Maybe not :-)