He's making the line look consistent with the line above it, which does need the curly brackets and single quotes.
--Curtis > I'm not sure why it isn't just *version::new = \*version:vpp::new > > -- David -- Curtis Jewell swords...@csjewell.fastmail.us %DCL-E-MEM-BAD, bad memory -VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears [I use PC-Alpine, which deliberately does not display colors and pictures in HTML mail]