Ruby parens-free function calls [was Re: Accessing parent objects]

[Rick Johnson]

On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 2:25:42 AM UTC-5, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Rick Johnson wrote:
> > The only difference is when you want to make a call from a
> > _reference_, which, as you and i well know, is not the
> > most common way func/meths are called (these are rare).
> 
> No, but it's the case we're talking about here. If
> functions don't behave the same way in all circumstances,
> you can't claim them to be first-class.

Just for the record: i never made any such claim. O:-)