Forgetting "()" when calling methods

[Roy Smith]

In article <s4uqavg0fjuucqve2vl4g03atpu25pdn97 at 4ax.com>,
Dale Strickland-Clark  <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote:
>Frantisek Fuka <fuka at fuxoft.cz> wrote:
>
>>When I try to call methods, I sometimes forget to include the 
>>parentheses. Instead of:
>>
>>if object.isGreen():
>>	do something...
>>
>>i sometimes write:
>>
>>if object.isGreen:
>>	do something...
>>
>
>It's the curse of Visual Basic.

I thought it was a perl-ism.  You can use ()'s, or leave them out.
You can use & or leave it out too.  Sometimes.  Maybe.  Depends if
it's a built-in or not, I think.  Ugh.

>I suggest you take your frustration out on the person who persuaded
>you to learn VB in the first place.

Same comment goes for perl.

>Recovery may be found in hours of coding in just about any grown-up
>language.

Ditto, but the recovery time may be longer than just a few hours.