> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:19:24 +0000
> From: Michael Foord <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk>
> To: "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@krypto.org>
> Cc: Python-Ideas <python-ideas@python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] replace boolean methods on builtin types
> with properties [py4k?]
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> > On 13 December 2010 22:35, Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> wrote:
> >
> > A hack could be done today to have these behave as both functions and
> > properties by having the property return a callable bool derived class that
> > returns itself. But that seems a bit too cool yet gross...
> >
> >
> bool derived class... good luck with that. :-)
>
> Michael

Well it it doesn't sound that odd to me.
This it's one of the (few) things I miss from Matlab.
Not that parentheses are optional for function calls, but that 'true', 'false', 'Inf' and 'NaN' act both
as their respective values,  and as functions. Like 'ones' and 'zeros' they can be called with a size
tuple to get an array of nd-array of that value.

-Mark