Re: Ideas about colon operator syntax (and a patch in the work)

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-05-01 15:58 GMT+02:00 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:

> I don't know the girl in question, but I do know her mother Pascal,
> and cousin Eiffel.  It's considered a feature that functions/methods
> of no arguments require no parentheses.

We're straying off-topic, but in some modern dialects of Pascal (Free Pascal
is the one I know best) the price paid for that feature is an extra `@` every
time you use a function as an argument.

> But in a language with first-class function values it makes no sense.

You've put your finger on the spot.