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in reply to Why parens?

This thread discusses the differences.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^2: Why parens?
by chazubell (Beadle) on Feb 08, 2013 at 15:43 UTC

    JohnGG:

    Thanks for the pointer to the discussion of parens. In the context per my example, it would appear that the programmer may have cribbed it from some other code (as do we all).