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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Robert A Duff wrote:
> > But I think requiring empty parens on parameterless calls would actually
> > *simplify* the compiler.
> 
> Don't forget the useful fiction that enumeration literals
> are parameterless functions.

I don't much like that "useful fiction".  Seems more like a "strange
confusion", to me.

We don't pretend that "1" is the name of a function, after all.

>... That would be impacted by
> requiring empty parentheses.

Indeed.

>... Now, if it hadn't been decided
> that array access and function calls should both use ()...

Yeah, ... ;-)

- Bob