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		fake-name on Sept 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Javascript: call functions without using parenthes... As someone who writes basically only C++ and Python, that code looks like a nightmare.

yen223 on Sept 20, 2018 [–]

Python has the `@property` decorator, which effectively disguises method calls as attribute access. To me, that's as bad, if not worse, than the ruby code posted above.

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