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Just think of the parenthesis as loving warm homoiconic hugs.

• anon4242 8y ago
  Hehe, when teaching my 8yr-old programming (in Python) I call (function call) parenthesis a hug to explain that a function "hugs" all arguments to it. She seems to get that :).
  • rsyring 8y ago
    This is a fantastic analogy, thank you for sharing! I found myself really struggling to communicate how a function's arguments got passed to it to my daughter and I'm going to try this the next time I need to explain it.
  • VladimirGolovin 8y ago
    I'm teaching my 12-yr old daughter Python right now, and this looks like a neat analogy -- I'll try it in a few minutes.
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