Eh? This is where I don't follow. What exactly are you recommending should be changed when you say "fix the parser"? Choose the other disambiguation, or simply

Eh? This is where I don't follow. What exactly are you recommending should be changed when you say "fix the parser"? Choose the other disambiguation, or simply use an entirely different function literal in the first place? For what it's worth, this particular ambiguity was discussed as part of the original language design. It was decided that having parentheses for both argument definitions and argument application was useful parallelism, and that function literals shouldn't have to have a "def", "func", "function", or other prefix. From those two ideas: # Definition (input) -> output # Application function(input) ... the rest of it falls out naturally.