Just because you can use some ambiguous syntax construct does not make it good or even clever. This sort of thing can be done a lot clear with functional const

Just because you can use some ambiguous syntax construct does not make it good or even clever. This sort of thing can be done a lot clear with functional constructs like compose and curry. Common Lisp example (easily done with any language that supports higher order functions): (funcall (compose 'add-one 'add-one) 1) And you can roll that a number of ways; adding in a curry of the identity of 1 if you just want a nullary function. (funcall (compose 'add-one 'add-one (curry 'identity 1)) And if you are interested in typing less, maybe you are a dreadful typist...try Haskell.