Various poking around hasn't resolved the question. So off to freenode and
/join #bash
<MichaelRpdx> In a Ward Cunningham interview he said "I saw &( ... ) in
use once and had to call my unix geek friends to find out how that could
possibly work."
<MichaelRpdx> What does &(...) do?
<MichaelRpdx> fork in a script?
<MichaelRpdx> complex evaluation?
<Riviera> There is no &(...).
<MichaelRpdx> &( <something> ) ?
<Riviera> MichaelRpdx: This command1 &(command2)
<Riviera> MichaelRpdx: would be
<Riviera> MichaelRpdx: command1 &
<Riviera> MichaelRpdx: (command2)
Riviera has less respect for Ward than I do.
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