On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

if condition [ block ]

is your basic template, the parens are there because 
the <> operator is bound  more closely to 'path than 'tail is,

so much so that 'tail would think its argument was the boolean
(path <> "/") if the parens were ommited
 
so the parens are only to resolve precedance


> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:51:06 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [REBOL] if (back tail path) <> "/" [append path "/"]
> 
> Can someone explain to Perl-brained person why the first expression is in
> parenthesis and the second one is in blocks?
> 
> I know it must be somewhere in some manual page, but, forgive me. Please.
> 
> 

          ... nice weather     eh          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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