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From: Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>
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Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:14:23 +0200
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Ayende Rahien wrote:
> 
> "Laurent Guerby" <guerby@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:86wv8sfwec.fsf@acm.org...
> 
> > And I of course forgot the mandatory () for function calls without
> > args silliness ;-).
> 
> No, I disagree with you about this one. It make reading far easier.
> You *know* that it's a function, and not some variable.
> Beside, it remind me of VB's abominationable () behaviour.

This is really the same issue as () vs. [] for arrays. I and many
other feel that, in the expresssion x := foo; knowing that foo is
a constant, a variable or a parameterless function, is just an
implementation detail. And thus having to use () to denote a
function call is an annoying exception to uniformity.


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