Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Alex Martelli]

Duncan Booth wrote:
   ...
>> Indeed, such languages as Visual Basic and Ruby do allow calling
>> without parentheses, no doubt because of this "nice look" thing.
> 
> I know we are agreed that Visual Basic is fundamentally broken, but it
> might be worth pointing out the massive trap that it provides for

I'm not sure, but I think that's one of the many VB details changed
(mostly for the better, but still, _massive_ incompatibility) in the
current version (VB7 aka VB.NET) wrt older ones (VB6, VBA, etc).


Alex