Print works without brackets...

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therevills

(Posted 2016) [#1]

According to http://monkey2.monkey-x.com/2015/09/09/monkey1-to-monkey2/

"Function call parameters must be enclosed in parenthesis", but at the moment Print can be used with or without parentheses:

#Import "<std>"
#Import "<mojo>"

Using std..
Using mojo..

Class MyWindow Extends Window
	
	Method New(title:String, width:Int, height:Int)
		Super.New(title, width, height, WindowFlags.Resizable)
		ClearColor = Color.Black
		SwapInterval=1
	End
	
	Method OnRender( canvas:Canvas ) Override
		App.RequestRender()
		canvas.DrawText( "Hello World!",Width/2,Height/2,.5,.5 )
		Print "TEST1"
		Print ("TEST2")
	End
End

Function Main()
	New AppInstance
	New MyWindow("Hello World", 640, 480)
	App.Run()
End

dawlane

(Posted 2016) [#2]

Would Print be considered a function or a statement? I've always considered it to be the latter as part of the core language that outputs directly to standard out and only excepts one parameter and one data type; non string types where possible get automatically recast to strings. Hench no need to emphasise that fact with parentheses, Where as modules are extensions and typically contain functions/method with variable naming that can have multiple parameters with various data types. I would think that enclosing these with parentheses would make it much easer to parse. If Print was doing more say like formatting output. Then I would expect it to have parentheses.
But then only Mark himself can tell you why parentheses are optional with Print.