Yeah, I think that people jump on that bandwagon just assuming that it will work magically. It is better to explicit about it if the cost is minimal. Python als

Yeah, I think that people jump on that bandwagon just assuming that it will work magically. It is better to explicit about it if the cost is minimal. Python also strove to eliminate unsightly bracketing, but it did so by replacing the characters with a more readable delimiter, not removing them entirely. To be fair to Ruby, most of the time when I've come across a situation where the call became ambiguous due to lack of parenthesis, the failure was obvious and easy to fix. I still think introducing that type of ambiguity into the language is an antifeature, but compared to CoffeeScript, where the automatic delimiting is non-intuitive enough that you often have to compile it down to JS to check that it's rolling everything into the right place, it's no contest. On our CoffeeScript project, the compiled blocks would change layout even with very minor changes to spacing or code arrangement. It would've been much easier just to throw in a () and tell it what we meant!