From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-06-02T11:13:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ternary operator confusion

On Jun 1, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Charles Hixson wrote:
> Uniform access could have been achieved if only () was made  
> optional.  (A good choice in my mind.)  OTOH, I'm not that happy  
> with optional parenthesis where the parameters are required.  To me  
> that feels like a bad design choice.  (And with some type faces the  
> difference between (stuff) and {stuff} isn't all that obvious.  But  
> that's a font problem...mainly.)

Would you have prefered to be forced to write:
     my_object.foo=( the_value )
versus
     my_object.foo = the_value
?