Linda Walsh wrote:
> A previous note had me wondering why the syntax for using
> curly braces to group expressions wasn't able to be the same as
> using 'paren's.

Braces are reserved words.  Parentheses are operators.  Blame
Steve Bourne.

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    c...@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/


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