functions without parentheses

[phil hunt]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:37:52 GMT, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
>
>I suggested in a previous thread that one could support such a syntax by
>supporting an invisible binary operator between two expressions, 

That's a truely appalling idea.

>so that
>examine "string" translates to examine.__invisbinop__("string") if
>examine as an expression evaluates to an object that has a __invisbinop__ method.
>
>Then you wouldn't define examine as a function, you would define it as an instance
>of a class like
>    class Examine(object):
>        define __invisbinop__(self, other):
>            #...whatever
>    examine = Examine()
>and then
>    examine "string"

Pass the sick bucket.

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