2013/11/22 deadalnix <deadalnix@gmail.com>

On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 04:33:56 UTC, Kenji Hara wrote:

After removing 'function' concept, 'func' always means function pointer or
delegate. So we cannot call functions without parenthesis anymore. It is
unacceptable change to me, and many D programmers would probably argue same
thing.

It removes all ambiguities.

Optional parentheses are still an option when they aren't ambiguous.

void foo() {}

foo; // Can still call foo if we want to.

It will introduce a new ambiguity. See below example.

int foo();

void test(int function() fp);

void test(int num);

void main() {

test(foo); // which test is called?

}

Kenji Hara