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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
>> On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 4:44:21 PM UTC+1, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>> Imagine a C-like language that differs from C only in that "sizeof"
>>> is spelled "$".  I presume that, in such a language, you'd be willing
>>> to write `$ foo` rather than `$(foo)`.  Why does the fact that it's
>>> spelled "sizeof" change that?
>>>
>> Special mathematical symbols are used for basic operations like addition.
>> These operations are also functions, you can graph them, take derivatives,
>> and so on.
>
> They're not "functions" in the sense that C uses the word.

Fortunately that word HAS PLENTY OF OTHER MEANINGS.  
Not everyone treats the C standard as a Holy Text, Keith.  Just you.