Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!

["Ayende Rahien" <Dont@spam.me>]

"Mats Karlssohn" <mats@mida.se> wrote in message
news:3AD458AF.22279994@mida.se...
> 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.

I can see their point, although I disagree.
Just as long as you don't go VB's way about it, I think everyone can accept
it.