Chris Angelico wrote:
Every once in a while, someone looks at Py2's print statement and Py3's print function and says, "why not allow function calls without parentheses". This right here is why not.
There's also the fact that the parens are needed to distinguish between calling a function and using the function itself as a value. Ruby doesn't have that problem because it doesn't have functions, only methods, and the only thing you can do with a method in Ruby is call it. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
