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Robert A Duff wrote:
 > plan old variable names use the same
 > notation as parameterless calls.

Don't forget that enumeration literals are considered
parameterless functions. It's this syntax which allows
different enumerations to share the same literals, yet
have them be disambiguated by overloading in context.

A very elegeant bit of hackery!