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Christian Calderon <calderon.christian760@gmail.com> writes:

> I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of
> each function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments.

Whereas I like the opposite: there is a clear syntactic distinction
between “get the value of ‘foo.bar.baz’” versus “get the value returned
when calling ‘foo.bar.baz’”.

Having the same name sometimes refer to “get this as a value” and other
times “call this as a function and get the return value” imposes a
cognitive load on the reader, IMO an unnecessary one.

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