Thanks for writing this. I think you've explained why I've always liked the ability to invoke functions without parentheses. I always thought it simply appealed

Thanks for writing this. I think you've explained why I've always liked the ability to invoke functions without parentheses. I always thought it simply appealed to my sense of aesthetics, and I've had somewhat of a hard time defending it but now that you mention it, building my own first-class primitives is a big part of it.