On Saturday, April 25, 2020, 09:52:45 AM EDT, Hellwig Geisse <hellwig.geisse@mni.thm.de> wrote:
> On Sa, 2020-04-25 at 09:11 -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > Two very different things are happenging, but with the shorthand notation,
> > they share an identical representation. And for what? To save three characters?
>
> The subject can be looked at from another angle. Consider
> the call f(42). This might be read as first naming f (and
> thus constructing a pointer to f) and then calling the
> function which the pointer is pointing to.

This is the way that I've taken to looking at it for the
last 10 years or so. In fact, I see it as the same thing
as an array. Specifically, I've taken to thinking of []
as a postfix indexing operator and () as a postfix
calling operator, and the thing on the left is a pointer
in both cases.

BLS