The Core Team discussed this and has decided to further revise the proposal to name the operator function func callAsFunction(). We are comfortable with enabling this functionality purely based on nothing more than the name of a function, and we are not persuaded that init and subscript (which both have substantially different semantic and syntactic rules and are not simply functions) provide important precedents here requiring a new declaration introducer.
Thank you all for the discussion.
John McCall
Bikeshed Manager