Right, but it's possible that the trade offs inherent in supporting both forms of method/function invocation and how they interact with function literals may no

Right, but it's possible that the trade offs inherent in supporting both forms of method/function invocation and how they interact with function literals may not have been obvious to a different person. Moreover in a different language it seems like it would be exceptionally hard to know how everything will interact, which is where a tool that can help you explore the term space automatically has value.