<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><div>On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">I'd much prefer eliminating such function calls. </div></blockquote><br></div><div>What harm do they do?  You can't call any library function with the wrong number of arguments, and you can't define a zero-argument function.  The only way this affects a BSL student is if the student is using a library that provides a zero-argument function, which it presumably does because the library author thinks BSL students NEED a zero-argument function.</div><div><br></div><div>I wouldn't draw attention to the existence of zero-argument functions in the docs, but I don't see that we need to overrule the judgment of every library author who ever provides one.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Stephen Bloch</div><div><a href="mailto:sbloch@adelphi.edu">sbloch@adelphi.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>