Re: Re: Functions as commands (was Re: class proposal 2)

I know that you love the Wiki but I'm not sure that every single 
discussion should go there. For instance I think that this is a 
straightforward bug:

> 
> Prothon 0.1 Interactive Console, Build 678, Jun 29 2004 (Ctrl-D to exit)
> >>> print (8 + 1) + 8
> 9
> 9
> 8

Everything on the line of the command should be part of the command. The 
only ambiguous case is when everything on the line is a single 
parenthesized expression. Maybe differentiating these cases takes too 
much lookahead in which case we could just say that parens in commands 
are purely groupers and never fuction param delimeters.

> This isn't really a function-as-command confusion. It is a 
 > print-as-"not-command" confusion. :-) You need to get used to
 > print being a function and add a lot of parens.

Recall that the goal of print as command is to avoid adding a lot of parens!

  Paul Prescod