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Adds 55 articles (plus 76 code samples) spanning four new domains and two existing domains, extracted from the internal Business Central review-agent prompt. Content was filtered against BCQuality's remedial-knowledge premise: each article encodes BC-specific behaviour, a CodeCop rule, a platform API semantic, or an anti-false-positive guideline that a capable LLM would otherwise get wrong. New domains: - privacy (11 articles): DataClassification inheritance semantics, the StrSubstNo-defeats-Error-telemetry-classification pitfall, Privacy Notice consent for outgoing requests, anti-false-positives for pages and in-memory data. - upgrade (11 articles): upgrade-codeunit structure, upgrade-tag lifecycle and registration, protected DB reads, DataTransfer for large datasets, InitValue semantics, enum-ordinal preservation, obsolete-workflow, first-install detection. - ui (9 articles): caption capitalization by phrase type, tooltip voice, teaching-tip vs tooltip, tour-tip conventions, character limits, banned terms, ampersand handling, title punctuation. - style (11 articles): label-suffix convention, API page naming, temporary-variable prefix, label properties (Comment/Locked), named invocations, FieldCaption in user messages, OptionCaption pairing, Error-parameter passing, `this` keyword, required parentheses, file naming. Gaps in existing domains: - performance (11 articles): production-scale table catalog (no row counts, per internal-data concern), anti-false-positive for bounded tables, guard-before-Get ordering, redundant-Get-in-OnAfterGetRecord, LockTable in read-only helpers, combined ModifyAll passes, writes in OnAfterGetRecord, SetLoadFields heuristics, temporary-table regressions, FlowField source-table widening, MaintainSQLIndex disabling SIFT. - security (2 articles): environment-specific hardcoded GUIDs, ValidateTableRelation=false on user input. Intentionally excluded: specific production P95 row-count numbers (aggregated internal telemetry); rewritten as categorical guidance on which tables to treat as production-scale without publishing sizes. All articles use `bc-version: [all]` (applies to every BC version, per the new schema sentinel). Validator passes with 0 errors / 0 warnings.
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bc-version: [all]
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domain: style
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keywords: [parentheses, function-call, aa0008, invocation]
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technologies: [al]
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countries: [w1]
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application-area: [all]
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# Every function call carries parentheses, even with no arguments
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## Description
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AL allows `Customer.Init`, `TempBuffer.DeleteAll`, and `Customer.FindFirst` without trailing parentheses when the method takes no parameters. CodeCop rule AA0008 requires the parentheses anyway. The reason is readability: without `()`, the reader has to know the member is a method and not a property — an ambiguity that resolves differently for the platform's own APIs (FindFirst is a method; `Name` is a field). With `()`, the call site is visibly a method invocation and a simple grep for `Init(` or `DeleteAll(` finds every usage.
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## Best Practice
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Always write parentheses on method calls, even when empty: `Customer.Init()`, `TempBuffer.DeleteAll()`, `if Customer.FindFirst() then`. Apply the rule to platform methods and to user-defined procedures alike.
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See sample: `require-parentheses-on-function-calls.good.al`.
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## Anti Pattern
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`Customer.Init;`, `TempBuffer.DeleteAll;`, `if Customer.FindFirst then` — all three compile but obscure what is a call and what is a field access. The inconsistency compounds when the same codebase has both conventions.
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See sample: `require-parentheses-on-function-calls.bad.al`.
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