Its ironic because foo() and (foo) have the same number of characters; but the later is actually data you can manipulate directly. Reminds me of the blub parad

Its ironic because foo() and (foo) have the same number of characters; but the later is actually data you can manipulate directly. Reminds me of the blub paradox in beating the averages[1]. [1]: http://paulgraham.com/avg.html http://paulgraham.com/avg.html