RE: [PATCH v5 08/13] send-email: use function syntax instead of barewords

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 28, 2021, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID: <60b116015b98a_4b03220857@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <patch-08.13-f1a879a8ae9-20210528T092228Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> Change calls like "__ 'foo'" to "__('foo')" so the Perl compiler
> doesn't have to guess that "__" is a function. This makes the code
> more readable.

Agreed. Ruby has something similar:

  foo arg1, arg2
  foo(arg1, arg2)

As a C programmer I find the former a quirk of the language, and much harder to read.

If it's a function call, present it as such.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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