JS and many other languages have getters so that's not always true.

But my point is that the reference to the function you are calling is actually its own term that needs to be considered in the order of evaluation.

You can also use the IIFE (immediately invoked function expression) pattern that is/was common in JS as an example:

  (function() {
    // ...
  })();

A "getter" executed on the "." operator isn't the same as executing the function it returns anyway.