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a Python person's experience with Ruby

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Sat Dec 8 13:44:18 EST 2007 
Colin J. Williams a écrit :
> Steve Howell wrote:>
> Thanks for the interesting comparison.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>   3) I actually like being able to omit parentheses in
>> method definitions and method calls.  In Ruby you can
>> express "add(3,5,7)" as both "add(3,5,7)" and "add 3,
>> 5, 7."  The latter syntax is obviously more error
>> prone, but I don't think I've ever actually gotten bit
>> by it, and the code appears more clean to me.
>>
> [snip]
> 
> I'm not sure that I like add 3, 5, 7
> 
> but it would be nice to be able to drop the parentheses
> when no argument is required.
> 
> Thus:         close;
> could replace close();

This just could not work given Python's object model. The parens 
actually *are* the call operator.
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