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

From: Felipe Contreras <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 11:10:41 -0500

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.

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Felipe Contreras