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Re: Making every no-arg method a property?

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  Re: Making every no-arg method a property? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-08-06 09:49 +1000
    Re: Making every no-arg method a property? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-08-06 15:02 +1000

#75772 — Re: Making every no-arg method a property?

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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On 6/08/2014 9:49 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

It also makes it impossible to use such methods in dispatch patterns or 
as callbacks.

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