Don't worry, its not coming back. Just goes to prove the old rule - no one reads beyond the headline :) ---- > Why is this being proposed? > > I think we woul

Don't worry, its not coming back. Just goes to prove the old rule - no one reads beyond the headline :) ---- > Why is this being proposed? > > I think we would need a very strong reason to consider this, > and so far I haven't seen any justification other than "because > we can". > (Guidos response below): There was definitely something of that... I was looking at the new PEG parser and realized that if people wanted it this would be easy to do. So I spent a pleasant hour or two coding it up to my satisfaction. But I was also trying to satisfy some demand. When Python 3 was young, print becoming a function was one of the most frequent complaints, and it's still occasionally seen on Twitter. I found at least two StackOverflow issues about it, but the combined upvote count was less than 100. An early post in this thread reminded me that IPython has a feature called "autocall" that allows exactly this syntax. I don't know how popular it is. However, apparently there the form `f x+1` ends up calling `f("x+1")` (i.e. stringifying the argument), so introducing similar syntax in Python with different semantics would hardly be helpful. (If someone wants to start a debate on argument quoting, please start a new thread, so we can lay this one to rest.) All in all, it's clear that there's no future for this idea, and I will happily withdraw it. ----