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On 12/01/2008 00:08, Miles Bader wrote:

Incidentally, any syntactic reason not to allow other "parenthesis-less"
calls?

E.g., you can use:  fun 'blargh'
sometimes I'd kinda like to be able to use:  fun 3
as well...
Perhaps because fun 3+4 would look ambiguous and error prone? Somehow, the quotes *are* the delimiters of the function parameter, so they are no ambiguous. 

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