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

> 
> On Fri, May 28 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not too familiar with Ruby, but the important part here in Perl is
> that it's not a "foo()" v.s. "foo" shortcut for a function invocation,
> it's unambiguous whether that is a function and what its arguments are
> until at that point in the program. Perl has dynamic grammar, you can't
> parse it with a regular grammar without executing it.