Of course, PG covered this in the Arc FAQ Why not use some other delimiter than parentheses? We tried various possibilities. Square and curly brackets lose be

Of course, PG covered this in the Arc FAQ Why not use some other delimiter than parentheses? We tried various possibilities. Square and curly brackets lose because they are less directional than parens (left and right differ in fewer pixels); < and > lose because they don't wrap around enough to enclose expressions longer than tokens. http://www.paulgraham.com/arcfaq.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arcfaq.html