On Sun, 14 May 2000, Michael Roberts wrote:
>
> Does anybody know why the parentheses are required? Is that to group
> everything? Why wouldn't the line end suffice to group the parameters?
>
Some commands take two arguments. At least one can take one or two. Even in
the cases where a command can only take one argument, the syntax is useful
to catch cases where a line break is missing, or where the user doesn't know
what they're doing. :)
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