On: Zig's (.{}){} Syntax

[xigoi]

A language that allows you to arbitrarily omit parentheses would be impossible to parse. That’s not the case for unused variables.

[082349872349872 → xigoi]

Not impossible: some lisps allowed arbitrary omission of close parens (upon finding a closing square bracket).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093339

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=20979

[em-bee → xigoi]

HTML allows to omit closing tags for <p>, <li> and others