why brackets & commas in func calls can't be ommited? (maybe it couldbe PEP?)

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com a écrit :
> I have nothing against brackets, and I think Python has used them for
> too much time to allow a so big change in its syntax.
> But I think in some situations Ruby allows to omit them,

<iirc notice="please someone correct me if I say something wrong">
Yes. But in Ruby, there's a clear distinction between attributes and 
methods, and attributes are always private, so you can only access them 
thru method calls. Also, Ruby's methods are not really first class 
objects - at least not the way they are in Python -, so when returning a 
'callable' object from a method, you have to call a method of the object 
(something like callable.call IIRC).
</iirc>

> solving some
> of the "impossibile" problems shown in this thread. This makes Ruby a
> bit better than Python to create application-specific mini languages,
> that are quite useful in some situations.

I'd say 'a bit more elegant', not necessarily 'better'. But that's of 
course very subjective, and I have far less experience with Ruby.