scalamacros/kepler — comment on commit 01f8b772e55db9ba89b72ed92ceee4b39a58c558
File: src/compiler/scala/reflect/runtime/ToolBoxes.scala line 121
By odersky:

Not sure we will be able to drop this. I forgot the reason why we dereference () functions, but there must have been one. So I propose to leave old version in comments to be resurrected if the problem resurfaces.