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> I think Perl's the only language which doesn't enforce parens if a function is pre-declared

Ruby never does, but probably you wanted to say "if and only if" ?

The possibility to omit parenthesis is essential for many syntactic sugar and DSL approaches.

Compare "has" in Moose which looks like a keyword.

update

example

has 'first_name' => (
    is  => 'rw',
    isa => 'Str',
);

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